11 MARCH 1966, page 31

It's A Toss-up Whether We Are More Or Less Open

to be swindled in modern Britain than were our mediaeval ancestors, whose range of choice was minute and whose knowledge of the wares available was (in part thanks to the strict......

Bargain-hunters Among The Wine Lists Will Hate Been...

Edmund Penning-Rowsell - s dictum in the Financial Tinies of last Friday that 'if it is wine you are after, the dearer classes provide the better value.' Mr. Penning-Rowsell was......

Endi?laper

On God and Land By LORD EGREMONT T HAVE a house in Sussex and another in Cum- berland. I have an old friend in the Midlands with whom I often stay on my way from the one house......

Chess

By PH1L1DOR No. 273. F. FLECK (version by A. R. Gooderson; Die Schwalbe, 1948). WHITE to play and mate in two moves ; solution next week. Solution to No. 272 (Fleck) : B—Kt i !,......

Next Week

The Mood in the Marginals-1 J . W . M. THOMPSON One year's subscription to the 'Spectator' zf3 15s. (including postage) in the United Kingdom and Eire. By surface mail to any......