What's Your Poison ?

They Hanged My Saintly Billy. By Robert Graves. (Cassell, 21s.) A HUNDRED and one years ago this May, Dr. William Palmer was executed for the murder of John Parsons Cook before......

Bus Journey

One tries to mind one's own business even although one doesn't have to on a country bus, but the lady who took her seat opposite and placed a cardboard box by her side looked......

The Partnership

'Remember ole Bill that lived near Church 'Ouse? 'im an' Torn Jones went in partnership repo :tin' property. Bill was a brickie an' Tom a carpenter. Tom got on the Council an'......

Sporting Life

PHILIP K. CROWE, the author of Diversions of a Diplomat in Ceylon (Macmillan, 30s.), was Until recently United States Ambassador to Cey- lon. Diplomacy may have interested him......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL A BLACKBIRD'S song takes a lot of beating, and the bird is one that no one would want to he without. There is even something to be said for the spring challenge of......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 110. P. H. WILLIAMS (Pittsburgh Gazette, 1911) BLACK (4 men) WHITE (10 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's......