All the charm of the ingenuous can be savoured in "A Plain Plantain," which is a collection cf} recipes and remedies from a manuscript household book of the seventeenth century, arranged and. edited by Mr. Russell George Alexander. It reminds us of many herbal virtues which, whatever their basis in science, were at any rate very pleasant to believe in. Mr. Alexander's informing appendix is not less interesting than the diction of the receipts' themselves, and the beautiful archaic, typography of the book reflects much credit upon the St, Dominic's Pross, Ditchling.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.