12 MAY 1950, Page 30

SHORTER NOTICE

As Cooks Go, By Elizabeth Jordan. (Faber. los. 6d.) THIS is the autobiography of a young married woman with two children who supported them and herself by going out as a cook. Mrs. Jordan is a born story-teller. The reader is anxious to know what happened next, and whether the new " place " is good or bad, what the staff are like.and what they all had to eat. It is a happy book, for though we hear about unjust, suspicious employers, or lazy,. slatternly, dishonest staff, there is no harshness nor censure. There is the appeal of a success story, too, for Mrs. Jordan, beginning at 3s. an hour, ends at the rate of £550 a year and all found. It would be very pleasant to spend a holiday at that hotel

in which she is cooking for her friends. - ,