American Parties
NomiNo puzzles the British spectator of the American political scene more than the party system, so irrational, complicated, slow-mov - ing, decentralised,, in short un-British......
Country Life
By IAN NIALL WE bought some honey the other day, and this reminded me that my grandfather was a successful bee-keeper, a thing I cannot claim to be, which is to my shame. When I......
Keeping Apples A Correspondent Asks What Keeping-apples...
in the new year. I suggest Cox's, Blenheims, Ribston Pippin (self-fertile) as dessert keepers, Bramley's or Newton Won- der (self-fertile) as cookers that will keep. An expert......
Chess
BY PHILIDOR No. 81 WHITE (5 men) Solution to last week's problem by Chandler: Q-Kt 2, threat Q x B P. 1 . . . Kt-B 6; 2 Q-Kt 6. 1 . . . Kt (4)-Q 5; 2 Kt-K 4. 1 . . . Kt (7)-Q 5;......
Coiffure X, Who Goes To And Fro Into The Village
and back to the farm on which he works, had a shock of hair that would have done credit to an old English sheepdog. There was, until recently, something decidedly sheepdog-like......
A Bare Hollow Walking Up The Hollow, Along The Course
of the stream, I remembered that the last time I went that way I found a magpie's nest in a b roken-topped fir, and a brood of hedge- sparrows in a little bush at the side of......
Wiltshire
Tito Shell Guide to Wiltshire, originally pub- lished in 1935, now reappears enlarged and revised by Mr. David Verey (Wiltshire: A Shell Guide. Faber, 12s. 6d.), and embellished......
Christmas Stocking To Help To Pass The Time Between Meals,
here are a number of variants on normal chess—some have been mentioned before in this column. LOSING CHESS. You must capture if you can: given a choice, take what best suits......
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