20 JANUARY 1956, page 26

The Most Celebrated Social Historian • Of Our Day Is

G. M. Trevelyan, and in this nosegay, picked for him by Dr. Plumb, we have examples of most of the possible types of social history. Mr. Rowse starts from a single text—a......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL TILE other day I was asked to identify a 'sparrow-hawk' that had met its death swoop- ing down through a set of telegraph wires. The bird turned out to be a......

A Hardy Pullet

One often hears of the extraordinary power. to survive that is possessed by certain animals, and recent instances have been those of cats that somehow or other found their way......

Bob's Jacket

I found it hard not to join in the laughter when the following tale was being told by one man to another in the bits queue, 'Bob 'adn't been up to much for a long time an' it......

Chess

By PHIL1DOR No. 33 C. PROMISLO 1 . . B-K 6 ch; 2 Kt-Kt 5. 1 . . . 13-B I ch; 2 R-Kt 7. I . . B-Kt 1 ch; 2 R-R 7. I . . . P x P; 2 Kt x P. 1 . . . R x Kt: 2 other; 2 Kt-Q 4.......

The Practice Of Management. By Peter F. Drucker....

MANAGEMENT is at last beginning to engage general attention among businessmen; a process summed up by Mr. Drucker when he says 'we no longer talk of "capital" and "labour": we......

Lit. Hist.

IF literary history is to be more than an aid to holding one's Own in conversation, or to avoiding the error of making Dickens predecease Thackeray—and as taught in universities......

Successive Beans

To ensure a good crop of beans it is often advisable to make a second sowing to follow up those put in in autumn. Whiteseeded Long- pods are the choice for winter. A third......