24 AUGUST 1956, page 21

Over The Mountains John Dunbar's Escape Through The...

Davies, 12s. 6d.) is a belated but interesting addition to the escapers' book club. The author, an American, came down by parachute over the Ile d'Oleron, off the west coast of......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL THE year of the short corn my grandfather talked about was one when winter stayed late and summer was too brief. I remember making the old man frown by suggesting......

Snakes In Ireland

'Touring the West of Ireland recently,' says a reader who lives in Bucks, 'I looked up the lovely mountain of Croagh Patrick in Co. Mayo, 2,000 ft. of rough stony path up which......

Mass Escape

of the budgerigars dying of suffocation, had opened his cages and broken his windows to let them escape. I hoped he would be able to recapture some of the survivors, for......

New Novels

Two excellent novels this week evoke two complete sets of circumstances and ways of life and thought, and, by almost exactly opposite methods, achieve rather similar results.......