... 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 ...

... Some Strawberry Troubles of 1951 Many are Wondering whether strawberries are really worth while this year there were no killing spring frosts, but the yield was often disappointing. In some districts these were the troubles which assumed major proportions. Grey Mould Botrytis cinerea The common name for this disease is Grey Mould as, when it forms spores, a typical grey, felt-like powder is ...

... If it is a few days in London Christmas shopping for others, or as a Christmas gift for yourself, here is a guide to London's current theatrical attractions something to everyone's taste from farcical to classical. WHATEVER else we may say about the London stage at the moment, it is not taking a gloomy view of life. There has rarely been such an em phasis on comedy, in all its forms. First, ...

... Good Investments For Your Library Black's Veterinary Dictionary ARE you aware of the difference between a hog and a hogg, or quite sure what a gimmer is? Could you accurately define the Animal Protein Factor about which one hears so much nowadays? What is a teart soil? When is a female cat best neutred? These and a host of similar matters are covered by Black's Veterinary Dictionary, by ...

... THE badly kept pet is an abomination, and though the crime may be but ignorance it is a crime none the less to cause suffering. No matter, too, how well cared for, some beasts and birds will never settle to captivity, to confine them is cruel; but there are others which will flourish when reasonably confined, and this little Right Way book deals with these pets. Cavies (our childhood guinea ...

... EVEN to-day, the animal is still present in man, but never man in animal the assertion that animals are better than man is sheer blasphemy: against this statement, combined with a grand loathing of anthropomorphization, Conrad Lorenz has written Man Meets Dog (Methuen; 15s.). It is a most interesting book, and although the author is entirely free from sentimentality, this is not to ...

... THE dissemination of informa tion on the practice and science of agriculture'' has always been one of the cardinal purposes of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and they have recently published A Survey of the Agriculture of Kent (from 16, Bed ford Square, W.C.I; 21s.), by Mr. G. H. Garrad, who has forty years' experience of agriculture in that county. The so-called Garden of England ...

... THE arrival of summer (if this miracle should by any chance occur in 1955) will bring with it the occupational risk of death by drowning, but there are other spheres in which a knowledge of artificial respiration may come in very handy: electricians, for in stance, ought to know what to do in emergency, as ought firemen but, of course, they do! Artificial Respiration (Faber and Faber 6s. 6d ...

... A readable and interesting book, The Valley of the Pyrene (Cassell 2 is.), is about one of the more ...

... THE first edition of Wild Fowl Decoys, by Joel Barber, appeared about twenty years ago, and very rarely indeed do copies come into the market, which is the measure of, its popularity amongst those who know a new edition (Dover Publications, with Mayflower Publishing Co. 65s.) is therefore very welcome. This is without any doubt a collector's piece in every sense written with the devotion and ...

... Two little racing handbooks which have recently been published. One is Cope's Racegoers' Encyclopaedia (David Cope Ltd., Ludgate Circus, E.C.4; 2s. 6d.), which is a splendid little book, well illustrated and with an excellent range of tabulated matter. It is enlivened by articles by well-known racing writers, not the least of whom is Major Fairfax- Blakeborough, who writes about the wonderful ...

... The -third volume of James Fisher's Bird Recognition (Pelican Books 3s. 6d.) really can be carried in the pocket. The fund of informa tion that is condensed into a small space by maps and year-cycle charts is wonderfully ingenious and accurate very little is omitted that concerns (in this penultimate volume) the rails, the game-birds' and the larger perching and singing birds. Some of the ...