Herbaceous Borders
The herbaceous border is one of the sad- dest sights in many gardens in autumn, and a general tidying-up often helps to prevent the border sheltering a large number of pests,......
New Novels
THE GUARDIANS. By J. I. M. Stewart. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) 12s. 6d.) VOICES UNDER THE WINDOW. By John Hearne. (Faber, 10s. 6d.) THAT strange, stylistic heartiness that insists on......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL A FRIEND said with some satisfaction the other day that she had been making jam untroubled by wasps as in years past, and thought that since we had had a bad winter......
Chess
BY PHILIDOR No. 15. A. R. GOODERSON BLACK, 8 men. WHITE, 7 men. WHITE to play and Mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution io last week's problem by Mansfield: K-Kt 4!,......
The Ways Of Eels
We were walking a path bordering a large iris-fringed drain, a drain that runs clear but has a silty bed, when my companion drew attention to the progress of a big eel slowly......
Dogfights There Is Hardly Anything So Surprising,...
comical as the be- haviour of people when a dogfight starts. It happens to nearly all dog owners at one time or another. I witnessed a scene recently when an old man with a......
India At A Glance. Edited By G. D. Binani And
/ T. V. Kama Rao. (Orient Longmans, 84s.) Rather more than a glance is needed to appraise these 1,756 large pages, all of two columns where they are not of several. But it is......
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