22 FEBRUARY 1957, page 36

Where To Stay

IF you are travelling in England Ashley Courtenay's guide to some 700 British hotels, Let's Halt Awhile (Collins; 9s. 6d.), is, if used with caution, a useful addition to the......

• New Novels

Justine. By Lawrence Durrell. (Faber, 15s.) Challenge to Venus. By Charles Morgan. (Macmillan, 15s.) The Big Fella. By Henry Clune. (Collins, 16s.) A Nest of Nightingales. By......

Early Seeds

If the cold snap comes one can meet the threat of a setback by sowing onions and brussels sprouts in frames. It is possible to encourage germination by covering the seed boxes......

A Hawk's Ways

If there ever was a sulking sort of a bird it surely is the sparrow-hawk in winter. His prey may be enfeebled by cold and lack of food, but the oppor- tunities of coming upon it......

Noble Savages

Man Alone! By V. G. C. Norwood. (Boardman, 18s.) Judging by their more uninhibited accounts, travellers no longer find anything naive in Rousseau's concept of the Noble Savage;......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL Eviormtv the lady who wrote to me expressing horror at the country habit of destroying a brood of crows has never seen a feeble Iamb that has had its eyes pecked......

The Water Trough

When the bends are taken out of the roads, as they have been to a much greater extent these few years past, the milestones are resited and, presumably, X becomes nearer Y to the......