21 AUGUST 1959, page 28

Canadian Tall Story

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT If one looks at a chart of the Treasury bill rates in the UK, the US and Canada it would appear that the Canadian Government began to take leave of their......

New Hands And Old

Lucia Wilmot. By Mary K. Harris. (Chatlo and Windus, 15s.) A Breath of French Air. By H. E. Bates. (Michael Joseph, Its. 6d.) Miss HARRIS is a lively writer who hasn't quite......

Big Sleep

Lugard in Africa. By A. A. Thomson and Dorothy Middleton. (Robert Hale, 18s.) IT is sad that Britain is only beginning to learn about her African empire at the last hour before......

Spectator Crossword No. 1,051

ACROSS 1 Fastening in a tooth successful (6) 4 Storing the hose (8) 10 Alias N. Parker? (4, 3) 11 A stilish quadruped! (4, 3) 12 Puttee sale (anag.) (10), 13 Tax-man? (4) 15......

Solution Of Crossword 1,049 Across. — 1 Overcame. 5 Slumps.

9 Flanders. 10 Barred. 12 Sheds. 13 Aventails. 14 Treble chance. 18 Wheel- barrows. 2t Discredit. 23 Heads, 24 Loosed. 25 Hour hand. 26 Deemed. 27 Assegais. DOWN.-1 Offish, 2......