Books Wanted

MA CUISINE by A. Escoffier, English translation by Vyvyan Holland (Paul Hamlyn 1965). THE PLEASURES OF THE TABLE by Sir Francis Colchester-Wemyss..THE TENTH MUSE by Sir Harry Luke. VENUS IN THE KITCHEN by Norman Douglas. Spectator Box 705.

LAFITE by Cyril Ray . also his IN A GLASS LIGHTLY and any cola COMPLEAT IMBIBER. Also 2 vols Bartlett's CANADIAN SCENES. Spectator Box 703.

INSIDE MONTE CARLO (paperback, Mayflower) by Anthony Purdy c. 1965. ROYAL HOMES AND GARDENS (Leslie Frewin, published 1971). THE MAN WHO STARTED THE WAR by Alfred Nautocks (Odhams 1968). I AM EAGLE by Gherman Titov (Anthony Gibbs 1970 ?). Tel: 01-353 1641. OLD CALABRIA by Norman Douglas. Spectator Box 704. THE WISTONBERG LINE by Osbert Sitwell. Box 702 ENTHUSIASM by Ronald Knox, 17 Purley Bury Avenue. Purley, Surrey BURGESS AND MACLEAN, Secker & Warburg 11961 ?), by Anthony Purdy and Douglas Sutherland: THE MAN WHO STARTED THE WAR, by Alfred Naujocks (Odharns c.1960) Tel 01-353 1641.

THE COUNTRY HEART by H. E. Bates. Spectator Box No. 701.

AUSTRALIA THE HARD WAY by David Pyle: DOGGEREL'S DICTIONARY by Richard Mallett. Griffin, 8 Meadowhead Road, Bassett, Southampton.

THE WANDERING JEW Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton Box Number 700 L. Powys' EBONY AND IVORY etc.; Stuart-Young's MERELY A NEGRESS etc ; Mark Freshfield's STORMY DAWN; Edg Wallace's SANDERS novels. Contact Noble, 18 Downside Cres., London N.W.3. Tel : 01-794 1215.

I CAME OUT OF FRANCE by Cecily Mackworth (1941), D. R. Norris, St. Dunstan's College. S.E.6.

BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY. 1952 or earlier. Secker, Iver, Bucks.

ROBERT BURNS, a biography. Millar, 58 Crafts End, Chilton, Dicicol. Oxon 0)(11 0513.

MERVYN PEAKE, Edward Upward. Miller, 3 North Hill Road. Leeds 6.

FOR THEM THAT TRESPASS, THE MIRACLE OF BREAN. Ernest Raymond. Box 696.

THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL WEST AFRICA FRONTIER FORCE. By Hayward and Clarke. Published Gale & Polden 1964. Box 697.

WHITEHALL THROUGH THE CENTURIES by G. S. Ougdale. E. J. Priestley, 10, Kent Close, 8 rornborough, Merseyside.

D. Kincaid's MOONRISE ON THE INDUS etc.; E. Calder's SIRI RAM etc. F. Brayne's SOCRATES IN AN INDIAN VILLAGE etc.:. Edw Thompson's works. Contact: Noble, 18 Downside Cres.. London N.W.3. Tel: 01-7940215. HALEVY The Liberal Awakening and The Triumph of Reform. T. C. A. Dowson, The Old Hall, Geethinq, Norwich. HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY by Kenneth Walker. L. Parker, 20, Gaieties de la Reine, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

HE WALKS IN TWO WORLDS by Maurice Barbanel!: WHITE CLIFFS TO CORAL REEF; A CLASSIC BOAT VOYAGE by William Howell. Spectator Box 693.

EUROPE AND THE TURK, A Pattern of Alliances — 13501700 by Dorothy Vaughan (Liverpool University Press 1954) and THE GASTEROPOD by Margaret Ross (Barrie & Jenkins) Box 694.

ELSIE OXENHAM; E. M. Brent-Dyer books. Mr Gall, 49, Anderson Avenue, Aberdeen.

FIRST EDITIONS, particularly early. Evelyn Waugh. John Tidey, 22 Pattison Road, London NW2.

BELLS RING BACKWARDS by Oliver Onions. Johnson, 46 York Road, Liverpool 23.

ELSIE OXENHAM & Elinor Brent-Dyer books, especially early editions. Marshall, 5/6 Down St. London W1. MEMORIES by Sir Maurice Bowie, 'Early Renaissance' by Michael Levey. S. D. Ezell, M.D. South Main Street. Salem, New York 12865, U.S.A.

FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury. Prof. Paperback,

E. M. Smith, 4, Fairmount Drive, Loughborough, Leics. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, GRAPHIC, etc. 19th century, needed by author for research. Johnson, 22 The Hamlet, Champion Hill, London SE5. Tel 01-274 1123. BILLY BARNICOAT by Greville Mac Donald, Maitland, 2 Howard Lodge, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells,

THE DAY ON FIRE by James Ramsay Ullrnan. Spectator Box 691.

AUSTIN FREEMAN any in any condition. W. H. Paul, Wychwood, Upper Court Road, Wolcfingham, Surrey. THE DIAGNOSIS OF MINERAL DEFICIENCIES IN PLANTS BY VISUAL SYMPTOMS, T Walla,..e. "The Waste Products of Agriculture" by A. Howard and T. Wad. Write L. 0. Hills. 30 Convent Lane, Bocking, Braintree, Essex.

SHIRLEY'S "History of the County of Monaghan". Elliott, West Walton, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

someone who wrote that letter was me. One other reflection on the man. Not long before his death, I went with a radio producer to ask him to record a very beautiful paragraph from his Second Innings, to do with the transience of existence. He duly recorded it, and then said, 'That's pretty good, you know. Couldn't write it now.' He was wrong, and anyone who doubts that he retained his mastery to the end should read, in Full Score, his essay about one of his mistresses, called 'Milady'. He was eighty when he wrote it. As they say in the classics, I should live so long.