There it is in a nutshell.
"Blind Policy"
George Manville Fenn
This puts the international situation in a nutshell, so far as to-day is concerned.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
The title would not then have involved an important difference between its working and its technical forms, and it would have better fulfilled the object of a title, which is, of course, to give, as far as may be, the essence of a book in a nutshell.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler