7 OCTOBER 1916, page 21

The Art And Philosophy Of Housekeeping.* Before The War...

was a tendency on the part of some people to regard housekeeping as synonymous with drudgery, and to consider that the details of household work were beneath the talents of.......

The Jolly Duchess.*

Ma. PEARCE gives as a sub-title " A Sixty Years' Gossiping Record of ' Stage and Society (1777 to 1837)." It would have been a fairer descrip- tion of his book if he had put......