Epiiemerime I Don't Suppose The Word Ephemeral Produces...
same association of thoughts for everyone that it does for me. Ephemeral might be the yellow splash of sunlight suddenly illuminating a distant hill, or even some sound with......
Memory
'Talkin' about people an"orses,' said the old fellow, "minds me of poor Bill. A grand lad, 'e wass. We worked together up at Bryn an' nobody worked 'ardcr than we did in them......
Woolly Aphis American Blight Is One Of The Pests Encountered
in some old apple trees, and it doesn't respond to spray treatment because the fluff or wool protects the pest. Methylated spirit is the remedy and should be applied with a......
Celebrities
THE new edition of Who's Who in the Theatre (Pitman, 5 gas.) had better be kept out of the way of Puritans who will be astonished and horrified to find so many people engaged......
Ancient Greeks
Greek Civilisation: From the Iliad to the Parthe- non. By Andr6 Bonnard. Translated by A. Lytton Sells. (Allen and Unwin, 30s.) M. BONNARD is a scholar with enthusiasm, and......
Dark Mare's Nest
WITH only a slight suspension of scepticism it is possible to let these speculations on Helen, Sappho, Cleopatra and the heroine of Shakespeare's sonnets (Dark Ladies, by Ivor......
Country Life
By IAN NIALL Two years ago a pair of missel-thrushes made a nest in the top of a"tree outside my house. It is not the sort of tree usually chosen by missel-thrushes, for it is a......
Chess
By PHILIDOR No. 98. C. GROENVELD (1st Prize, II Due Mosse, 1954) BLACK (I I men) WHITE (7 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's......
Rome
THE two essential virtues in a guidebook are orderly arrangement and unambiguous accuracy. Rome, by Y. and E. R. Labande (Nicholas Kaye, 30s.), has neither. An awkward......
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