The Dabchick
At some time in the summer—perhaps when it was riesting or exploring the reed-fringed pond—an accident befell the dabchick. A pike may have risen to it and the bird may have......
Mirth-maker.
"HERE we are again!" With a screech of laughter, the Clown jumps through the painted wall of time, turns a somersault head- first into the present, and comes down upon our stage......
Oxford Junior Encyclopiedia: Volume Xi: The Home....
is nothing junior about this domestic addition to an admirable series. From Adoles- c ence (a common phenomenon) to Yellow ever (happily more rare), the homely scene is closely......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL WHILE visiting a friend who lives in a wooded valley where firewood is not hard to find, our conversation turned to the ash logs on the fire. It was a frosty night......
Journals Of Captain James Cook. Edited By J. C. Beaglehole.
Volume I, The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771. (C.U.P., for the Hakluyt Society, 80s.) With a Portfolio of Charts and Views. THE publication of this edition of Cook's journal......
Young Samuel Johnson: A Biography. By . James L. Clifford.
(Heinemann, 30s.) IT would be a pity if the recent spate of books on Samuel Johnson should ward off potential readers from this fine biography by the Pro- fessor of English at......
Bean Protection
Broad beans and peas are frequently at- tacked as soon as they shoot. It generally pays to make a cover from strips of wire'netting bent into an arch and laid along the rows.......
Chess
By PHILIDOR No. 32. C. MANSFIELD BLACK (10 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by O'Keefe and Smith: R-K B 2!, threat......
Fairy Wrens
In a further letter about Australian bird life, Mr. Max Henry, of Chatswood, writes : 'Throughout this area the tendency of house- holders to display flowering shrubs in place......
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