Country Life
By IAN NIALL Ir is a harmless fancy that the note of a bird at a particular time expresses an emotion akin to one's own, but if this is not literally true, many people have......
A Shepherd's Job Casualties In Flocks Of Sheep Grazing The
wild, rough uplands arc often heavy in spells of hot weather, when the maggot thrives and water holes dry up into platters of mud and slime. Such conditions also make the......
It'r A Crime
Alien Virus. By Alan Caillou. (Peter Davies, 13s. 6d.) • Brisk and pleasing foreign-affairs adven- ture story, set in the Cairo of between Neguib and Nasser. The hot and exotic......
The Midnight Plumber. By Maurice Procter. (hutchinson,...
life in Manchester, which would be even more convincing that it is if the city hadn't become `Granchesteri' its Mid- land Hotel 'the Northland,' and Strangeways Jail `Farways.'......
Swoj Pens The Requirements Of Sweet Peas Are Mainly A
sunny situation. and ample supplies of organic food. A generous .mulching at this time of year is essential to encourage growth and blossom. When the soil is very dry a liberal......
Think, One Crook—raffles—and One Private Detec-...
in Albany. Here, surely, is the first Scotland-Yard detective-inspector to live there (private means augment his pay packet), whence he emerges into the middle of this......
The Barbarous Coast. By John Ross Mac- Donald. (cassell, 1
Is. 6d.) Mr. Macdonald makes the same sort of clean-cut dive as Raymond Chandler used to into the rich but murky Californian underworld, where a millionaire can buy a murder as......
U Nluc Ky Blackbirds
A pair of blackbirds have just come to grief here , for the third time in their efforts to raise a family. The trees they frequent are pollarded, over-pruned and hardly safe,......
Literary Jumble Sale
WITH its present number, Bottegbe Oscure (edited by Marguerite Caetani; Hamish Hamilton, 15s.), which was founded in Rome just after the war, celebrates its tenth anniversary.......
Harm Intended. By Richard Parker. (seeker And Warburg,...
too, is life as people might reasonably be imagined as living it— buoyed up by the pools and cast down by the eleven-plus. A man in a modest . way wins a packet, and a couple of......
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