... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE GLORY OF DENMARK A Magnificent Pictorial Survey From Flensburg, on the Schleswig-Holstein frontier, to The Skaw, at Jutland's tip, from Esbjerg, on the west, to Copenhagen on the east. Denmark is a land that inspires deep devotion in its people, a longing among its exiles. It has a measure of variety, in the green verdure of the eastern shores, the forbidding dunes of the west, where the ...

... WHY is it that the adventures of a family in a French village can make so much more amusing and original reading than the adventures of the same kind of family in an English village? There are very few Cranfords, and yet, it seems, any number of Provencal or Dauphine or Ile- de-France villages from which even an unpractised writer can extract the best kind of fun and the most moving ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor zydllen EVIDENTLY it is fruitless, these days, to go to Corsica to write about bandits. Denis Clark did so, with wife and small daughter, after release from the R.A.F. He heard of only one who might still be lurking in the hills, but was told stories of the notorious Spada by one Dominique, who said it was all hooey-- the report that he was caught in his parent's house ...

... . by Rupert Croft- Cooke By Rex Warner. (The Bodley Head 9s.) IT is a curious fact that the more individualistic and original a modern writer may be, the more one finds oneself searching for possible precedents and influences. For Mr. Warner's one must go back a century or two. His cold, lucid prose, his starkly silhouetted narrative, recall Swift or, at moments, Defoe, while the general ...

... adam's rib. A coyly streamlined comedy on the old theme of sex privilege, in which Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, as husband and wife, both lawyers, find themselves on opposing sides in a trial for attempted murder. A very good supporting cast and a general air of smooth competence distract one from the basic belief that the leading characters need smacking. it 's a great feeling. A ...

... by CYRIL BUTCHER WE were told that the production of The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy and Montague Barstowe, would be the result of miracle-working by all concerned: producer, cast, scene-designer, cameramen, sound engineers and stage-hands. It was to be a two-studio affair, meaning that every inch of space at Alexandra Palace would be devoted to it. That information struck a nostalgic ...

... . By John Lodwick. (Heinemann 9s. 6 d.) IT begins to look as though Mr. John Lodwick has found a formula for his novels which satisfies him. A casual murder or two, a collection of raffish and vicious characters, a protagonist who is no better, a sensational story with a dash of brutality in it set in a sunny climate and you have the matter of most of his recent books. The present one is no ...

... THE CINEMA REVIEWS By C. A. Lejeune TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH. As we have been warned, a new wave of Holly wood pictures about World War II. is breaking over the screen. A few weeks ago we had Gary Cooper as a Rear-Admiral, in a film celebrating the exploits of American aircraft-carriers in the Pacific. Now we have Gregory Peck as a Brigadier-General, in a film recording the first daylight missions ...

... . By Nieel Kneale. (Collins 8s. 6 d.) THIS is a collection of short stories by a writer who is still in his twenties, and is sponsored by a Fore word from Miss Eliza beth Bowen. Mr. Kneale is a Manxman, and frequently uses his own region as a background with results not unlike those of other regional writers Mr. Rhys Davies, for example. But he has a truly original turn of mind and is not ...

... . By Bernard Falk. (Hutchinson 63s.) IT is surprising to find that this is the first published biography of Rowlandson. There have been critical studies of his art and Mr. Falk readily acknowledges the value of the works of Mr. Paul Oppé and Dr. Edward C. J. Wolf, but it seems to have been generally assumed that the facts of Rowlandson 's life were either too obscure or too discreditable to ...