Regarding the LIBELLUS DE ARTE COQUINARIA AN EARLY NORTHERN COOKBOOK, I can report as to exactly what this volume is all about. The LIBELLUS is among the oldest of culinary recipe collections & dates from the early thirteenth century. It survives in 4 versions in three languages... Danish, Icelandic, & Low German. It is thought to date back to possibly even the 12th century. It's a small collection of only 35 recipes and was published as part of the Collection included in AN OLD ICELANDIC MEDICAL MISCELLANY [Ms. Royal Irish Academy 23D 43.]in 1931 by Henning Larsen.

What this new 158 page book does is to bring together the four versions, translate them, add textual notes, commentary indices, glossaries, and bibliographies. As such, it offers a rare glimpse into the world of early culinary manuscripts in Northern Europe. I should mention that it's the work of the late Rudolf Grewe (who provided us with the LIBRE DE SENT SOVI in 1979) and Constance B. Hieatt who is of course the scholar behind PLEYN DELIT, CURYE ON INGLYSCH, and AN ORDINANCE OF POTTAGE. The scholarship is as expected excellent.

So, if you collect medieval culinary texts, this is one for your shelves. Unlike PLEYN DELIT, it does not contain modernized versions of the medieval recipes, but the composite translations offer many details and much commentary for any cook wishing to create their own working versions of these early recipes.

This book has been an inspiration and has given me great delight at what can and has been achieved through prayer power in Northern Ireland.Through one mans faith in the Lord Jesus Christ he has set up a place which can offer hope for the people of Northern Ireland. I would encourage any one to read this book or its sequel "THE SEERS HOUSE" and may be it will change their lives also.

Very informative selection of photographs and a good overview of Lines East of the GNRY. Along with Line West, soon to be reissued, a good second acquisition to Wood's masterpiece on the GNRY.

This is the most useful, informative book available on the GN. The PFM book is nearly as good, and much larger, with sections on Stevens Pass and the electrics. The Lines West book by Charles Wood is slapdash and leaves a great deal to be desired. The new edition is another lesser attempt which will sell since nothing else is available.
There is a new revised edition of Lines East which I haven't acquired yet but it appears to be exceptional.

Lois's book is excellent and alot of help...I wish she would
make a new book with the new and latest perennials that are
coming out....

Catherine cookson has written another delightful novel that travels through the generations of one family. The curse of the Mallen Streak is filled with tragedy and forbidden love, it takes you right to the heart of lifes trials and tribulations with all of its wanting to be accepted in a time when scandal was everything and could not be forgiven. I highly recommend this novel whether you are a Catherine Cookson fan or not!

This is an extremely useful book. It begins with northern England and covers the continent west of the Elbe and north of the Alps, including Scandinavia. Since most American readers tend to have some familiarity with England if with any region, this may be practical. However, it leads to a recommendation that the reader definitely should not stop with the first chapter, because only later does it become apparent that there were many other ways of handling "commons" and many different definitions of what was "common."

Marinus Willett never attained more than the rank of lieutenant colonel during the Revolutionary War, although many (myself included) would argue that he accomplished far more with far less than any of his contemporaries on the American side. For that he deserved the honor of rank commensurate with his abilities and accomplishments. But Willett was not a complainer; he was the quintessential doer. He was the model citizen-soldier.

It was the supreme compliment to him to be referred to as "the Devil" to the British and their Iriquois allies, not because of any atrocities attributed to him but because of his bravery, tenacity, resourcefulness, and tactical skill. The drubbings he was able to inflict on them gave him somewhat of a supernatural aura in the eyes of his enemies. Contrasting the British/Indian opinion of him, the largely German Americans who inhabited the Mohawk Valley referred to him as the "Saviour of the Mohawk Valley" for his accomplishments on behalf of the American side there.

Willett was a master of small unit tactics, able to rapidly assemble, deploy, and engage his tiny forces against numerically superior forces...and soundly thrash them! His ability to convert from a defensive stance to a stubbornly aggressive offense was a key element to his success in keeping his enemies off balance and systematically defeat them. Without him, the American presence on the New York frontier would have surely collapsed, opening the way for the British to take Albany and Massachusetts, thus perhaps altering the course of the war.

Mr. Lowenthal's engaging book brings to life one of the most unrecogized heroes of America's most important (but also most unrecognized) military conflicts.

In this volume Mary Ann must deal with her beloved father's
attraction to a young, conniving woman named Yvonne, who,
along with her conspiring mother, plot to woo Mike away from
Lizzie and the family.

Mike, flattered by the attention, ignores pleas to show the
two women the door, and continues the dangerous association,
forcing a wedge between himself and his loving daughter.

Against the backdrop of their Michael's wedding to Sarah
Flanagan, Mary Ann once again must find a way to bring Mike
back to his senses and into the family's loving fold.

It's good to see Mary Ann's fiery spirit still intact; the convent school may have smoothed out some of her rough edges but
nothing will ever change her true character, and her fierce
loyalties to her family and her benefactor Mr. Lord. Once more
she displays the courage to act on her own instinct, which never
steers her wrong in the end.

I enjoyed seeing young Michael and Sarah's love changing them
both for the better. I sympathized with poor dear Lizzies' problems with one-of-a-kind Mike Shaughnessy. I worried along
with Mary Ann as she gets cold feet before her marriage to Corny, will she really be able to live away from her beloved
home, her family, and be known from now on as Mary Ann Boyle?

Let's not forget the irrepressible character of hearty, poverty-stricken Fanny McBride. Read the novel of the same name for more of this tough, delightful old woman.

I was once again taken across the water to North Country England
listening to Susan Jameson's excellent reading of this terrific
book.

The Marshall Decision And Native Rights addresses the legal history and political implications of a variety of Native American issues within Canada. Treaty issues for hunting, fishing, logging rights, maritime activities, self-governance, and Canadian Supreme Court rulings are presented with a series of essay chapters blending aboriginal history and anthropology with politics, law, and constitutional policy decisions. The Marshall Decision And Native Rights is a scholarly, informative, and much appreciated contribution to Canadian-based Native American studies, reading lists, and reference collections.