... 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 ...

... This quotation, taken from the first Ameri can newspaper, Public Occurences is part of the preface to one of the two best books of the week. AMERICA GOES TO PRESS (Harrap. 10s. 6d.) is a kind of scrap-book of newspaper cuttings from the time of the Boston ...

... 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 ...

... The World of Books Reviewed, by VERNON FANE OF all the direct results of this Coronation summer in publishing, the most agreeable so far has been the Coronation scrap-book, WHEN VICTORIA BEGAN TO REIGN (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.). Hiss Margaret Lambert ...

... Twilight of the British Monarchy. By An American Resident. Is. Back From the U.S.S.R. By Aiv'rd Gide. 2s. 6d. WITHERBY. Tante Rebblla's Saga A Backvelder's Scrap-book. By C. R. Brance. 7s. 6d. WORLD'S WORK LTD.-- Three Died Beside the Marble Pool. By Carl M. ...

... drawings of sitters whose work has stirred Sir William's admiration, and who range from Viscount Allenby to Cecil Day-Lews, from Sir John Reith to Sir Rabindranath Tagore, and from Sir Austen Chamberlain to David Low. The drawings are accom panied by pen-portraits ...

... Tree, who tells that their scrapbooks and sheets of music are bound in the same vivid and heartening colour. During his lifetime Mr. Alan Parsons was a devotee to the art, for with its devotees it is nothing less, of the scrapbook. He would sit at a long ...

... artistic leanings very different from his elder brother, who was an intimate friend of the famous Captain Rohm. Ludwig is banished from Germany, returning there disguised as a Lett in order to rescue his old tutor from a concentration camp. The two of ...

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... 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 ...

... is of generous proportions and amply illustrated, may evoke nostalgic pangs from members of the Duke's own generation, and occasionally, perhaps, some supercilious smiles from the 1937 crowd. Mr. Neal Harman's novel, Rebellion (Arthur Barker 7s. 6d.), ...