There it is in Cookbook short'hand but who'd ever guess that those sixty-eight little words and symbols could lead the way to so much sheer deliciousness? For there's a pie, lady, as is a pie. As every trencherman who dangles his short legs or stretches his long ones under your banquet board is going to testiry
FOR several miles the counties of Oxford and Warwick, are bounded by a narrow straight roadway. From the "Cross Hands" to the Edge Hills, this road follows the northern boundary of the Cotswold country. To the north west lie the fertile valleys and plains of the Warwickshire Feldon country, whilst eastwards the ground gently slopes to the valley of the Cherwell. The ridge thus divides the water…
There are one or two points in the letter of your esteemed correspondent " Lambda " in last week's issue which call for some observation before the subject of the recent Revision of the Ritual is allowed to rest. Being one of an abnormal class which comes under two categories in your correspondent's letter, namely, " blaming the Conference for its insufficient action," and being at the same tim…
In perusing the lyrics of this play the reader will be distressed by many graceless irregularities of rhythm. A long apprenticeship to the craft of making words fit music has convinced me that the more precisely they follow the musical pattern the more disagreeable they are to read. I trust that the reader whose ear is offended by a line that is too long or by one that slips away tooflowingly w…
A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an accumulation of historical documents and a storehouse of anecdotes about the object of his keen interest (having grown up in Illinois) paints a compelling picture of the 16th President and the rugged frontier life of the early 19th Century. - Summary by Scotty…
THE } following Pictures of Old England were originally "^sketched by the author with the view of more clearly^illustrating to his countrymen his History of England in the Middle Ages1, a work which is admitted by all who are capable of forming an opinion on the question to be characterized by impartial truthfulness and by indefatigable industry in the research of minute documentary evidence. T…
he Chants in this Collection have been arranged with the following main principles in view : — (i) That single or double Chants should be used according to the character and construction of each Psalm. See Psalms xv. (single) ; xxiv. (double). (2) That the construction of each Psalm should as far as possible govern the antiphonal arrangement ; e.g., if the parallel or antithesis occu…