23 DECEMBER 1955, page 29

Llom A Column In The Bookseller Comes This 0 11ection Of

amiable incidents in a lightly- tsguised provincial bookshop, narrated by a ten assistant who works hard and is under- aid. Pleasant enough reading for the bookish ho can......

Country Life By Ian Niall (4a The Townsman There May

be something fizzling in the fact that country folk will me to market on the bleakest and rawest q of the year, even when they have nothing ) sell, but the market, like cattle......

Turkey. By Geoffrey Lewis. (bean, 21s.) This Latest...

a volume in the Nations of the Modern World series complements. rather than replaces, Townbee and Kirkwood's book of the same title, first published in 1926 Mr. Lewis does not......

Christmas Trees

I may be out of date, but the most pathetic thing to me is the artificial Christmas tree, the sort of half-brush affair coated with ready- made frost. Surely it is the invention......

Pruning Know-how

Pruning is regarded as a technical business by some people, and there is no doubt that an expert is the man for the job. On the other hand, experts are scarce and the know-how......

Zzards

'Unless I am mistaken there will soon be a , I nPaign against the buzzard, aided, perhaps, '' a word or two from broadcasting person- tiles. The buzzard has not been a common......

Chess By Philidor Black, 3 Men.

As I have carelessly forgotten to put in the Black king, sol- vers must first put this necessary piece on the board in such a position that there is a sound mate in two moves......