The Feasts of Autolycus. Edited by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (John
Lane.)—This "Diary of a Greedy Woman" is a sort of sublimated cookery-book. Mrs. Pennell laments that in the kitchen, where she ought to be supreme, woman has hitherto shown herself inferior. The great cooks have been men. And this is only too much in agreement with her behaviour. As she fails in her power of preparing the dinner, so she fails also in her appreciation of it. She is content to feed without dining. This volume, then, is to be taken as a step in advance. It is not a mere collection of recipes, though there are recipes in it ; it is a catalogue raisonnd of notable dishes. Many readers must have made acquaintance with the papers in the columns of the Pall Mall Gazette, where they originally appeared,—an acquaintance which, we are sure, they will be glad to renew.
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