... Sweet Home wwwww S 'cylS a fascinating story the evolution of Home, Sweet I Home from primitive hut to steam -heated mansion. The Tudor fireside was an open central hearth with but X a hole in the roof to draw off the smoke. When grates and firebacks came in both they and windows were long S regarded as personal property distinct from the rest of i) the house, and often listed separately in ...

... Books: Reviewed by Trevor Allen MR. COLLIN BROOKS, editor of Truth, croons no lullaby over the 1930's decade. It came in like a ravening wolf, and went out like a roaring lion. It began in world economic chaos, and ended with the world at war, he writes in Devil's Decade (MacDonald, 15s.), focusing the period mainly through pen-portraits of its monarchs, statesmen, politicians, financiers, ...

... Reviewed by Trevor Allen STRANGE are the winds of circum stance that blow into men's lives, launch ing them on unusual journ eys-- Captain Roy Farran went east in 1940 at nineteen, fought in tanks in the Western Desert and in Crete, operated as a Special Service commando behind the enemy lines in Italy and France, and finally served in the Palestine Police-- a job that involved him in a charge ...

... Books Reviewed by Trevor Allen YOU have to hand it to the Fat Girl. She was Sophie Abuza, waitress and washer-up in her parents' restaurant at Hartford. She carolled to the customers, then at local concerts, stormed New York's Tin Pan Alley, and in due time became the famous Sophie Tucker, to whom a rich sheik who beheld the most beautiful lady I have ever seen in the film Honky Tonk wrote: ...

... VV/,vAA/WWr^/,^'AA/^AAA/W/' /'A : Reviewed b y Trevor Alle?i HAVE something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style, wrote Matthew Arnold. It also seems to be the idea underlying The English Language: Its Beauty and Use (Odhams, 7s. 6d.), a handy guide to the correct use of words and the best in our literature. Perhaps one may be permitted to lift an ...

... VWAAAAA' THE Haymarket Theatre has seen 226 years of chequered history, yet to our leading stage S chronicler, Mr. W. Macqueen-Pope, it remains the 2 place it was when Fielding fought for freedom there, Cibber used it to defy Drury Lane, Foote X flouted the law, Liston raised laughs, Romeo Coates made an ass of himself, Buckstone and s Sothern popularized Dundreary whiskers, and Tree did ...

... tf| CtJUc fur s&mEsm _ V These little parkins are very popular. PARKINS Ingredients i lb. oatmeal (medium or fine); 1 oz. lard; 1 oz. sugar; 1 teaspoon- ful bicarbonate soda teaspoonful ginger; 4 oz. golden syrup; a few nuts; pinch of salt. Sift together flour, salt, oatmeal and soda and mix well. Melt lard and work it in and add enough syrup to form a stiff paste. Put dessertspoonfuls in ...

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... Books: Reviewed by Trevor Allen HOW the great betray them selves in the little! In the garden of Miss Naomi Jacob's home at Sirmione, Lake Garda, was buried a pet Pekinese with his name, Samuelo, painted above the grave. When the all- conquering Nazis arrived they said: The name is Jewish. To-morrow it will be painted out. And it was. Even during that bitter struggle, she writes, they ...

... , STEFAN ZWEIG, ace biographer of Marie Antoinette s and Mary Stuart, took his life in Brazil, the refugee secretary whom he had married dying with him a tragic s ending to an illustrious career. In Stefan Zweig (W. H. Allen, 12s. 6d.) his first wife, Friderike, tells the S story of their romantic love when she was already a wife and mother, marriage and their Salzburg mountain home where he ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen U.S. novelists are certainly thorough. Mr. Louis Zara, for example, isn't content merely to portray the first fourteen years or so of his heroine Ruth Middleton (W. H. Allen, 10s. 6d.). He devotes a first chapter to her pre natal growth in biological detail, with running commentary by the parents on progress so far and appropriate Biblical quotation; and I've no ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen IN common with most thinkers from Biblical times onwards, Mr. John Brophy is perplexed by the dual nature of mankind, body and mind, and the sustained warfare between the two. In Body and Soul (Harrap, 15s.) he manfully, solemnly tackles the problem with wide knowledge, apt quotation. His approach to the bold nudes by artists classic and modern which illustrate ...