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| | Newsletter Issue 88 |
 | | There are recipes for weird concoctions such Salmagundi and Humble Pie, and instructions for how to behave at the dinner table, lists of people who have had food named after them, how to fold napkins, and if you get stuck, how to eat dogs and horses. |
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http://www.mantex.co.uk/news/news-88.htm
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| | Lederer Book Recommendations |
| | Word Mysteries and Histories: From Quiche to Humble Pie. | | | Recently added titles are indicated by a red | | | The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way. |
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http://www.verbivore.com/bkrecom.htm
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| | Feature Dashiell Hammett: Let's Talk About the Black Bird |
| | Hereafter even S.S. Van Dine" -- author of that era's wildly popular Philo Vance mysteries -- "must lower his monocle, cough up the encyclopedia and eat some humble pie." | | | Alexander Woolcott called it "the best detective story America has yet produced." The New Republic extolled its "glittering and fascinating prose," while the U.S. national humor magazine Judge delivered one of the cleverest ovations, declaring that Hammett "writes with a lead-pipe and poisoned arrows as coups de grace. | | | And praise for The Maltese Falcon seems uncurbed by the passage of time. |
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http://www.janmag.com/features/hammettintro.html
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| | The Book Shop - CVC COLLECTABLES |
| | SMALL FACES, The Small Faces
& Other Stories, (U.K.), (Sanctuary Publishing), By Uli Twelker and Roland Schmitt, 448 page softcover, about The Faces, Frampton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott, Humble Pie and other stories, $25 |
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http://www.cvccollect.com/bookshop.html
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