Renewing Strawberries
While it is wise to renew a strawberry bed with virile stock, it is sometimes expedient to replace old plants with runners that have come from them. The new plants should be......
Feeding Time
It was just past noon and I sat on a rock eating my sandwiches when my attention was taken by a trout that was rising as he cruised round the little bay. He seemed a big fish,......
The Head And Heart Of Thomas Jefferson.
By John Dos Passos. (Robert Hale, 25s.) Tuts combination of a distinguished subject and a distinguished writer promises more than in fact it offers. John Dos Passos's technical......
Cue Catholic Emancipation Crisis In Ire-
LAND, 1823-29. By James A. Reynolds. (Yale University Press. Geoffrey Cumberlege, 30s.) Ir is odd that historians have paid so little attention to the campaign for Catholic......
Chess
BY PHILIDOR No. 10. W. GEARY Solution to last week's problem by fences, e.g. 1 . . . Q-Kt 6; 2 Q x R. 1 . . . B-R 6; 2 Q-B 3. 1 . . . B x P; 2 Q-R 5. Note also 1 . . . Px R; 2 Q......
Contradictory Evidence
'Scientific minds have bent themselves to the problem of water divining. Here is a quotation from Theodore von Karman's Aerodynamics (1954), p. 160,' says Mr. A. E. Boyd, of......
By Ian Niall
THE drought continues and, although the sky has been overcast once or twice, looks like remaining for some time. Not long ago caravanners were reported to be coming to blows......
German Romantic Literature. By Ralph Tymms. (methuen, 25s.)
THIS is a sound, thorough and illuminating account of a chaotic period, which neverthe- less produced works that speak to us over more than a century more appealingly than they......
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