... 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 ...

... The most recent addition to the Lonsdale Library is Motor Racing (Seeley, Service 35s.), edited by S. C. H. Davis. Those who con tribute chapters are a most distin guished band Sir William Lyons, F. A. Wadsworth, J. S. Webber, George Baird, Rudolph Uhlenhaut amongst them and this book must be about the most conprehensive of the readable treatises on the subject which have appeared. Certainly, ...

... 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 ...

... A CHALK stream fisherman who was described as being in a class by himself when it carne to catching fish (which is, after all, the object of the exercise); a most prolific writer under his own name and many adopted signa tures; a constant campaigner for a wider outlook on the sport; a man who had to work hard for his living and who continued to do so till he was eighty; a fly fisherman with ...

... I DR. ALLAN FRASER has produced a revised second edition of his excellent book, (Crosby Lockwood; 21s.), in which he has included reference and discussion to the economic and technological changes that have taken place in the pattern of beef production since the book was first published in 1953. All the original material has been modified where necessary and two entirely new chapters have ...

... Much well-presented information about the incidence of disease, preventive measures, research and investigation is given in Report on the Animal Health Services in Great Britain 1957 (H.M.S.O.; 6s.). Figures for vaccine production at Weybridge include over 1,400,000 doses of crystal violet vaccine and nearly 750,000 doses of S19. Nearly 3,000,000 doses of mamma lian tuberculin were also ...

... MOSTLY OLT OF-DOORS Far From a Gentleman (Michael Joseph; 30s.) is by John His lop, who is a very competent writer, just as he was a very competent rider. As a rider, he finished third in a Grand National, won many important steeplechases and hurdle races and was the lead ing amateur on the flat from 1946 to 1956. As a writer, he has written several books on racing and here again he has always ...

... 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 ...

... Miss Daphne Machin Goodall is well-known as a knowledgeable writer on horses and horseman ship and her latest work, British Native Ponies (Country Life, 35s.) will be of the greatest interest and use to the ever- increasing number of pony- enthusiasts of all ages. She gives the history and characteristics of each of the nine breeds and their sub-sections and has illustrated her accounts of ...

... A DELIGHTFUL book, a com panion to his recent discus sion on sherry, has been written by Rupert Croft-Cooke: Port (Putnam; 21s.). He writes with proper and fond respect for a drink which is, after all, essentially a tradition of this country, but he never allows high-falutin' nonsense to get the better of him; indeed, he condemns such an approach. He says Port is to be treated with respect, ...

... Those who remember only the earlier editions of Black's Veteri nary Dictionary (A. and C. Black 40s.), and the perhaps dispropor tionate amount of space given to the horse, will find in the new fifth edition a wealth of information about cattle and pigs. Techniques of interest to farmers and public health matters are well covered. The prevention of disease, as well as first-aid, has received ...