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Essayez. By Lord Zetland. (John Murray, 28s.) LORD ZETLAND, who was Secretary of State for India from 1935 to 1940, is very discreet in his memoirs, but lets one or two cats out......

New Novels

Mamba. By Stuart Cloete. (Collins, 13s. 6d.) IN The Scapegoat Miss du Maurier has dispatched with a -wonderful kind of brisk, sensible self-con- fidence the sort of theme that......

Africa Again

Animal Safari: Big Game in South-West Africa. By Lutz Heck. (Methuen, 25s,) Is it ungenerous to suggest that zoologists, docu- mentary film-makers and the like who travel in......

Reflection

While I was looking over a hedge into a small market garden the other day, my attention was taken by the antics of .a cock blackbird that seemed to be fluttering up and......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL THE local hunt had its final meet of the season a little over a week ago, and at the same time details of the number of foxes killed by farmers with shot- guns in......

Halictus Bees

`In reply to your query regarding the little heaps of gravel in your Hampshire reader's paths,' says a lady who lives in Yorkshire, 'this is probably the work of a small......

Worms In Lawns Wormcasts Disfigure A Lawn And Sometimes...

tion has to be given to the nuisance below ground. These pests can be dealt with in spring by means of a dressing of mowrah meal followed by a good watering. Afterwards the......