... Books 011 Wine By T. A. Laytou IN 1508, publisher Wynkyn do Worde published (in Flete Strete, at the Sygne of the Sonne) his famous Boke of Keruynge, or carving. Technical terms for a true carver were as follows: Chyne that samon tear that egge splaye that breme frusshe that chikyn dysmembre that heron thye that pegyon undertraunche that purpos por poise culpon that troute alaye that fesande ...

... (bfr flfc. 'tkirjfi: Flowers lor the Living (Duchess) Auihoiiv lotilniinti THEATRE managers are perhaps more alert than they are reputed to be, but they have their curious lapses. They will sometimes allow an obvious opportunity to go begging and then unexpectedly make a wild snatch at its retreating coat tails. Two years ago this piece, tried out at the little New Lindsey Theatre, made a ...

... tStf E. I A i.v THE re-discovery of the Boswell Papers has been a long drama of ransacking in which Colonel Isham, an American collector of eighteenth-century curiosities and rarities, has played the principal role. After many triumphs and a certain number of reverses, a mass of material has been collected from Malahide Castle, from Auchinleck and elsewhere, from cabinets, cupboards and even ...

... Booh, Reviews Sean Fielding The Salt WHO, then, sits above the salt in the newspaper business? Rhetorically asked; rhetorically answered-- editors (of various kinds and shades), managers (of one degree or another) and advisers (those chameleons of print). In sober truth, of course, the one truly essential person, without whom all is as a tinkling cymbal heard from afar, is the re porter, the ...

... Cut fe At Fdiiiluirgli The Festival Plays Anthony Cooknian PLAYGOERS coming north for the opening of the Edinburgh Festival have met with mixed weather and mixed drama. They have drawn what satisfaction they could from the distinctively Scottish character of both. Three out of the four plays are by Scottish dramatists; all three have been played by the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre; perhaps only ...

... ctt Accolade (Aldwych) Anthony Cookinan THERE is the art of drama and there is the art of the stage. The difference between them is very vividly illustrated by Mr. Emlyn Williams's new play. As drama Accolade is negligible; as a series of exciting scenes, strung together for the stage by adroit contrivance and by acting of luscious intensity, it is worth every penny you have paid for your ...

... By Critic IN these modern times history is too often demanded in tablet form. Only a com parative few remember that there was once upon a time a man called Henry VIII., who was far too much married, and a Queen named Anne who is dead, but who before her departure to a more secluded sphere, did found Ascot racecourse. Yet there are many people who still can appre ciate sidelights upon history, ...

... By Critic THE Earl of Cardigan's story of his escape from the Germans whilst being trans- ferred from a prison camp near Boulogne in 1940,' is told us in his latest book, 1 Walked Alone (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd, ; 12s. 6 d.). It is compiled from such rough notes as he was able to make of his trying adventures as he tramped his way through northern France and the Unoccupied Zone of Vichy ...

... Cbt Poinl ok* Departure*' (Lrrie, llaiiiniersmitli) Anthony (ooknian IN Paris M. Jean Anouilh is held to be the most original of living playwrights. We are rapidly coming to have the same opinion of him. He is both a tragic and a comic writer; and his language is the language of the stage. He was introduced to us by Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. They played his Antigone for the Old ...

... Pretty Kettle of l isli EUaubvih //of- >ft ELIZABETH JENKINS'S Six Criminal Women (Sampson Low, 10s. 6d.) is a study of major characters-- six exceptional members of the sex. For, as statistics show, women in serious crime are rare. Murder, house-breaking, forgery have, even in these progressive days, very largely been left to the male practitioner. Ladies tend to confine themselves, more ...

... (LAf 't&JL- I The Taming oi the Shrew (Regcni's Park) P. L. Mannock MR. ROBERT ATKINS'S production of The Taming of the Shrew in Regent's Park is a tremendously enjoyable spree under any weather conditions. The Open-Air Theatre, naturally, is at its best at the end of a more or less perfect day, meteorologically speaking. Nature becomes the handmaiden of art when the setting sun ...

... Elizabeth Bowen HEAVEN lies around us in our infancy-- few of us indeed, at an early age, could have thought it possible that the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass had any other role. That Lewis Carroll was in reality the Rev. C. L. Dodgson, mathematician, Fellow of Christ Church. Oxford, came to some of us as a severe shock. Later one settled down to ...