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Gossip And Gourmandise

The Gourmet's Ahnanach. By Allan ROSS MacDougall. (Desmond Herinsworth. 8s. 6d.) Tins attractively-produced book is an English edition of one already published in the United......

Saints And Scholars

" I WAS born under a kind star," writes Katharine Tynan in the epilogue to her collected poems, and on reading through these lyrics one cannot but agree with her. The mood out......

The Corsican

Napoleon. By F. M. Kireheisen. Translated by Henry St. Lawrence. (Gerald Howe. 30s.) Bonaparte's Adventure In Egypt. By Lieut.-Col. P. Cl. Elgood. (Oxford University Press. Its.......