7 JUNE 1969, Page 18

Shorter notice

The Gourmet's London Robin McDouall (MacGibbon and Kee 30s). One hundred and fifty well-chosen recipes from fifty not always so well-chosen London restaurant, with comments on the latter by the secre- tary to the Travellers' Club, friend ot Harold Nicolson, Brian Howard et al. It the value of the comments is likely to prove almost as ephemeral as the prices quoted. at least the recipes contain eternal veritie,. But the publishers would have done better to avoid the promotion slogan 'Get stuffed in style with Robin McDouall.'