... illustration from London Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, by Sir Ambrose Heal (Batsford £6 6s.), a magnificent volume embodying thirty years of research. It forms the first public record of the principal cabinet-makers and their auxiliaries, from the dawn to ...

... , in fact stretching it to include the nineties and to last till the First World War released the social revolution, Mr. Gore's Edwardian Scrapbook promises only a scrapbook, an old screen with old prints and old cuttings pasted upon it at every angle ...

... MAN OF THE WORLD. More than five years ago Roger Livesey appeared in Peter Ustinoy's The Banbury Nose, which presented a man's life in reverse, running back from Z to A. Now here is the same actor in a play by a new dramatist, C. E. Webber, at the Lyric ...

... SOME VARIED, RURAL EXCURSIONS Selections from Beach Thomas and from A. G. Street; Miss Rider Haggard's A Country Scrap-Book -By VERNON FANE FOR a great many of us, one of the joys of Sunday morning is reading a particular half-column of graceful prose ...

... business in Mr. Graves' company. From the same publishing house, but in rather different vein, is Laurence Scarfe's ROME (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.). The author, a member of the younger generation of artists, has produced a scrapbook of impressions of the Eternal ...

... domination of the world. Like all great leaders Roosevelt aroused men's passions to the point of apotheosis on the one hand and virulent hatred on the other. That this was manifest in his own country more than in the rest of the world is understandable ...

... written what he calls a scrapbook of the '20's, and has chosen for it the kind of title one might choose at a games-playing party, For Whom the Cloche Tolls (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) The volume itself is in the shape of a small scrapbook and illustrated by the ...

... enchanting novel, and it has been just what I would have expected from Mr. Charles Morgan. A BREEZE OF MORNING (Macmillan. ios. 6d.) is the story, slight from one point of view, profound from another, of a schoolboy's love and discernment, both of them on ...

... unhappy. As a reminder, they may be fine but if you have not seen the productions, you can gain little from posed groups and pictures of make-up seen from eyeball-aching close quarters. Every thing is so still, so black, so faintly creepy, like dusty artificial ...

... VERNON FANE FROM all over the world-- or so we confidently hope-- people will be coming to London this summer, and to greet them, besides the Festival and the newly- flowered face of London, will be a number of books and histories and guides. From these they ...

... waged against Russia at th beginning of the last world conflict. Told from the poin of view of a rank-and-file soldier, this has sincerity, patho and the hallmark of true experience. Verno; Fane The World of Books THE SATURDAY BOOK 17: The book jacket ...

... admirably liberal, erudite and amusing. Certainly Mrs. Raverat lived in one of Cambridge's most en chanting houses, from a child's, if not from a housekeeper's, point of view. Mr. J. C. Smuts has written a biography of the great man who was his father, and ...