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... reliable historian for the young to read without an elder beside them. But he does make a genuine attempt to do justice to Kitchener, and at the end of the volume there appears the best piece of writing by far of which Mr. Lloyd George has shown himself ...
... range over land, sea-and air. A long chapter, and one of the most sober of the collection, deals with the death of Lord Kitchener and the legend of his survival. Another chapter deals with cyphers, another with female soldiers, another with female spies ...
... the tea-leaf the modern woman's gauntlet, something to fling in the face of the world But hers was in Venice, in the Royal Kitchens in Venice and that, of course, tells you that she is an American. But if she is the sort of American who opens tea-rooms ...
... heard it purring behind him, then Good girlie, good girlie, and later to his wife and ma-in-law I 've put a lion in the kitchen, you 'd better not go in. The exploit got him into the papers, and ever after there was a streak of yearning heroism in this ...
... After this she went out cooking dinners for people who gave large dinner-parties, afterwards eating up the scraps in the kitchen with the parlour-maid and discussing the guests in the best below-stairs tradition. For this job Miss Dickens received 7s ...
... 'fifties will divert and delight every woman with a passion for travel after five years of the butcher, baker, grocer, and, kitchen sink. ANOTHER wanderlust book for the homebound is Arabesque (Hutchinson, 18s.), the auto biography of H.R.H. Princess Musbah ...
... illustrated. RICHARD TATTERSALL, eighteenth- l century Lancashire lad of yeoman stock, was crazy about horses. Scolded out of the kitchens, he'd go to the stable yards, and at fourteen bought a horse for himself a nag pulling a besom cart hid him in a disused ...
... Lion's autobiography, The Surprise of My Life (Hutchinson, 21s.). MISCELLANEOUS What the Countryman Wants to Know, by Fred Kitchen ,and Clifford Greatorex (Gollancz, 8s. 6d.) is a well illustrated nature book of interest to town dweller and countryman alike ...
... men who were Masons in their day Hogarth, Benjamin Franklin, Mozart, Burns, Wash ington, Stamford Raffles, Goethe, Scott, Kitchener, and the late King Edward. The book is intended for a special public, and is not to be judged, therefore, by purely literary ...
... she wanted S to give middle-class families an all-round guide to domestic competence and happiness in a style which any kitchen fool could understand, and the tome became more than a success a classic. Mrs. Beeton s and Her Husband (Collins, 12s. 6d ...
... the 32 jewels and relics ot the executed Emperor Maximilian, some of which she reclaimed from Federal pawnshop and thieves' kitchen. ANOTHER attractive autobiography, -about her girlhood in Finland, is Martha Hedman House's Mathias and Mathilda (Chapman ...
... conditions in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia and the eastern Mediter ranean is unsurpassed, and he has worked with men like Kitchener, Eldon Gorst, Wingate and Allenby, as well as with Law rence, Faisal, Abdallah and Husain Ibn Ali of Mecca. His pages are ...