3 SEPTEMBER 1965, page 25

Bordeaux Breakthrough

By BERNARD DENVIR AT times it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that M. Malraux regards culture in the same way that Clausewitz regarded war, as an exten- sion of foreign......

Afterthought

By ALAN BRIEN WHEN I was an essay- reader as a boy (when there were still essays to read and before I became the last of the rambl- ing egocentric essayists), journalists seemed......

Chess

By PHILIDOR 246. W. A. SHINKMAN (1st Prize, Huddersfield, 1877) BLACK (4 men) WHITE (5 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to No. 245......