INFORMATION PLEASE!

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26129, 3 June 1950, Page 3

INFORMATION PLEASE!

Odham’s NEW ILLUSTRATED UNIVERSAL REFERENCE BOOK meets the claim on the dust-cover that the book is “packed with facts.” It can be opened at any one of its 768 pages and attent’on arrested by something of interest. The book presents in handy form a wealth of knowledge on a range of subjects from world history to hints for the home handyman.

PRACTICAL COOKERY FOR ALL, also from Odhams, is a truly magnificent cookery book of 640 pages with nearly 400 illustrations, including 16 colour plates. Thjfi is not merely a recipe book but is a true cookery book giv'ng comprehensive - coverage of culinary practices, many of them helpfully i’lustrated. The book will be ’nvaluable to the beginner, placing at her disposal in easily assimilated form the “know-how” of the most experienced cook and housewife.

A third “nformation” book published by Odhams is THE CHILDREN'S GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE <512 pp. with over 400 drawings and photographs, a frontispiece, and eight plates in colour). The reader is shown clearly the wide scope of human knowledge and a good deal about it is explained in simple language. Parents, uncles, and aunts w ; ll find this 911 admirable gift book which will stimulate the inquiring minds of 10-16-year-olds to further inquiry about the subjects presented.