Where To Stay
IF you are travelling in England Ashley Courtenay's guide to some 700 British hotels, Let's Halt Awhile (Collins; 9s. 6d.), is, if used with caution, a useful addition to the......
• New Novels
Justine. By Lawrence Durrell. (Faber, 15s.) Challenge to Venus. By Charles Morgan. (Macmillan, 15s.) The Big Fella. By Henry Clune. (Collins, 16s.) A Nest of Nightingales. By......
Early Seeds
If the cold snap comes one can meet the threat of a setback by sowing onions and brussels sprouts in frames. It is possible to encourage germination by covering the seed boxes......
A Hawk's Ways
If there ever was a sulking sort of a bird it surely is the sparrow-hawk in winter. His prey may be enfeebled by cold and lack of food, but the oppor- tunities of coming upon it......
Noble Savages
Man Alone! By V. G. C. Norwood. (Boardman, 18s.) Judging by their more uninhibited accounts, travellers no longer find anything naive in Rousseau's concept of the Noble Savage;......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL Eviormtv the lady who wrote to me expressing horror at the country habit of destroying a brood of crows has never seen a feeble Iamb that has had its eyes pecked......
The Water Trough
When the bends are taken out of the roads, as they have been to a much greater extent these few years past, the milestones are resited and, presumably, X becomes nearer Y to the......
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