... 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 ...

... end of the scale in sea stories. Commander Victor Clark, D.S.C., R.N., who retired from the Royal Navy in 1953 with a brilliant war-record, set out two months later from Lymington in his 33-ft. ketch Solace on a journey that was to take him 48,000 miles ...

... 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 ...

... sen illustra tions, ranging from the white horse cut in the Berkshire Downs, at Uffington, to the barn at Great Coxwell or the glorious effigies in West minster, Worcester and Wells, help us to visualise the vanished world described so glowingly. Clive ...

... did taste of tomato. Also a pork pate made from the liver of animals fed only on organically-grown food. The difference was evident. Wholefood sells produce from all over the world. The fresh and dried fruits from faraway places are correctly grown un refined ...

... 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 ...