... BY HELEN BURKE THE BEST OF ALL LABOUR-SAVING ways oi' cooking is en casserole. Not only does it do away with the need to dish up which was general only a few years ago, but it also minimizes washing up. It enables the young housewife with little storage space, no kitchen help, and perhaps little time, to bring to her dining-room presentable tableware in thick, heavy iron casseroles and oven ...

... -i 2^ D. II. Wjndham Lewis CANNIBALS Preparing to Devour the Remains of the Archbishop of Quebec is the title of one of Goya's more restful alfresco studies, now in the municipal gallery at Besançon. A hardy girl roaring in a Sunday paper for Adventure Off the Beaten Track might do worse than pop in some time and have a look at it. If that baby is the kind of English Rose we take her for. it ...

... The R' r Company Ltd The R' r Company Ltd., CLan Jfl d^ovet czV yen /y )i Extra performance need not mean increased fuel con sumption. Witness the Rover Seventy-Five. Its designers who produced the world's first gas turbine car have obtained from the Seventy-Five a perform ance which will surprise even those who know Rover cars well, yet its petrol consumption is substantially lower than that ...

... Scotch II/' r: 1 h 2 still going strong Fine old ...

... Cyril Ray TRAFALGAR DAY is on Sunday, and each year as it comes round I recall that on that same day in 1941, I was sent by my paper to write a brief paragraph about the wreaths that had been laid on Nelson's column. Among them was a circle of laurels placed there by the daughter of Admiral Sir James Plum- ridge, who had been a sub-lieutenant in H.M.S. Defence at the Battle of Trafalgar. It ...

... with i. Bickerstaffe THE year that has just left us is doomed to a big black mark all round on the wine lists of to-morrow. Champagnes especially, but burgundies and clarets, too, have been treated unkindly by the weather of 1951. Although, as some cynical shippers point out, in about three years' time there will be no lack of vintners who will discover that all the time they had a little ...

... D. U. Wyndham Lii* HEARTS-OF-OAK with mahogany faces and in fact all sons of the unplumbed, salt, estranging sea-- especially the neurotic ones-- will be glad to learn from The Lancet that when their electro encephalograms begin to show activation of the alpha rhythm and slowing of the dominant wave-frequency, it is time to drop the gobstick and make for the lee-rail. Nelson's electro ...

... t a D. B. Wyndham Lewis HAVING a light sigh of relief at the recent assurance that the Fellowship of Musicians has not dissociated itself from the policy of the Musicians' Union in the matter of higher wage-claims, we nevertheless thought it a shame to disturb the rapt spiritual communion between Albert Hall audiences and the music-boys with these rather materialistic side-issues. Ii the Pitti ...

... D. B. Wyndbam Lewis ASKED by rich artistic women what Dulwich Art Gallery (just restored) says to us, we reply, “Mr. and Mrs. Judd, and proceed instantly to describe to the harridan concerned a portrait at Dulwich which seems to us more significant, as a possible means of reviving this branch of British art, than anything from the fine collection of Stanislaus- Augustus, last King of Poland, ...

... /no Little Bays And Cinderella Paul Halt IT would have been all right if I had kept my mouth shut. There was no call for me to do anything. But a man, when confronted by more than a half-dozen ravening children, somehow feels compelled to boast, to show off, to prink at the thought of superior experience and to pride at pleasure to come. He says, in fact, with a wink: Don't you believe ...

... Oliver Stewart DIGGING in the garden has been ingeniously justified on the grounds that it puts up the flavour of a double whisky. If the flavour of the wines of France could be put up, the Monte Carlo Rally, which should be in the news when these notes appear, ought to do it. There is the requisite toil and sweat in the road section. Discomfort and privations are suc ceeded by luxury and ...

... search of oid friends TALKING of Conti of the Café de Paris, we heard a rumour that he had taken over The Old Bell at Oxted so on our way to East Sussex for Christmas we made a slight diversion through Oxted to see if this was true, as indeed it was. Sure enough there he was and with the authentic Conti touch had made many alterations and great improvements since we last visited this ...