7 MARCH 1925, page 19

M. X. Marcel Boulestin Is , One Of The Sensiblest And

most appetising writers-upon the preparation of food, and A Second Helping (Heinemann) should be read by all ambitious cooks. The book begins with an admirable quotation from......

Sir Sidney Lee's Life Of King Edward

THE biography of King Edward VII., which Sir Sidney Lee has compiled at the request of King George, though largely based on documents in the royal archives and on others......

* * * * Sir James Wilson Has Published An

edition of the Scottish Poems of Robert Burns (Oxford University Press), with an English translation and a phonetic transcript. There can be no charge of vandalism, for the......