Happy Birthdays

Sir: I was greatly pleased to learn from Mr Bill Grundy's press column (28 February) of the fifty-first birthday of Dom Aelred Wat- kin. Mr Grundy mentioned that he didn't have......

Ardevora Veor

AFTERTHOUGIIT A. L. ROWSE Nor any motion of footfall Beneath ceiling or rafter by day: All laughter, all merriment over, The ghosts have their way. A house alone with its......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator', 6 March 1869 — General Grant's address, on assuming office as President on Thursday . . . is certainly short and good. He takes the oath to the......

No. 543: Act I, Scene I

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to use the following ten words, in the order given, to construct part of the script for either a play, musical, panto- mime or film; up to......

No. 541: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were invited to compose an octet, using rhymes taken from a well-known poem, on one of the following sub- jects: thoughts on the motorway box;......

Chess No. 429

PHILIDOR White Black 10 men C. Mansfield (Hon. Mem., B.C.F. Tourney 116, 1967/68). White to play and mate in two MIMS; solution next week. Solution to no. 428 (Anderssen and......