... heard it purring behind him, then Good girlie, good girlie, and later to his wife and ma-in-law I 've put a lion in the kitchen, you 'd better not go in. The exploit got him into the papers, and ever after there was a streak of yearning heroism in this ...

... trying for a scholarship, and a master piece of descriptive writing about Susan trying to do her homework at night in the farm kitchen make up this simply planned book written by an expert. Regretfully I said good-bye. In Sackcloth for Susan (Chapman and ...

... by Alice Molony (Faber and Faber, 6s.). This story is about a farm in Cornwall and a dog called Happysnapper. Choose Your Kitchen, by Adie Ballan- tyne (Faber and Faber, 5s.). A most timely and useful little book. The Beginning was a Dutchman, by Isla ...

... 'fifties will divert and delight every woman with a passion for travel after five years of the butcher, baker, grocer, and, kitchen sink. ANOTHER wanderlust book for the homebound is Arabesque (Hutchinson, 18s.), the auto biography of H.R.H. Princess Musbah ...

... Tokyo for backward cities like Sungkiang. There should be lovely broad roads! They made them by ripping through bedrooms, kitchens, court yards without compensating the owners. There should also be a new canal! They dug it by grabbing every able-bodied ...

... Continued, from page 41) his mouth into grotesque shapes with his fingers and making faces at himself then he would rush into the kitchen, roaring with laughter. Some English readers may not be moved as easily, for it is not every one's humour, much of it being ...

... Just William breed, make the re-knowing worth while. SALLY CARTER has lived in Shaffle village seventy years. She was kitchen- maid at the Hall. Cinderella luck brought her marriage to the heir to the squiredom She branched out into business, which ...

... especially the culinary pictures in colour. S It is a cyclopaedia of recipes, with chapters on meal- planning, food values, kitchen equipment, wines and S beverages. s In Ursula's Cook Book (Gifford, 3s. 6d.) Miss Bloom passes on, with humour, her best ...

... Lion's autobiography, The Surprise of My Life (Hutchinson, 21s.). MISCELLANEOUS What the Countryman Wants to Know, by Fred Kitchen ,and Clifford Greatorex (Gollancz, 8s. 6d.) is a well illustrated nature book of interest to town dweller and countryman alike ...

... she wanted S to give middle-class families an all-round guide to domestic competence and happiness in a style which any kitchen fool could understand, and the tome became more than a success a classic. Mrs. Beeton s and Her Husband (Collins, 12s. 6d ...

... distant roosters trumpeting the advent of dawn and Blue streamers of wood smoke began to lift in twisting random curls above kitchen chimneys are typical. He had a great time writing it, says the jacket note. It certainly has plenty of action. MODERN China ...

... with Church dignitaries and replying, when a Government peer asks him what it would cost to substitute the figure of Lord Kitchener for that of the Duke of York on the Waterloo Place column Seven- pence ha'penny. All you'd need is a few ladders and a moustache ...