Stately as a Galleon' and other songs and sketches

This collection of two dozen of Joyce Grenfell's best-known sketches and song-lyrics includes many of her favourite characters. The Women's Institute Lecturer, The Vice-Chancellor's Wife, Shirley's Girl Friend (here involved in a festival of early music), Mrs Moss, the odd, old woman in a rocking-chair in Virginia, recalling Lally Tullett, and many others.

The songs range from the pregnancy of 'Dear Francois' through the charming absurdity of the title song about middle-aged ladies 'dancing bust to bust' and the ferocity of 'Ethel' to the sheer joy of 'I'm Going to See You Today'.

John Ward's illustrations, more delicate but no less apposite than those in 'George - Don't Do That', are once again a delightful complement to the text