Country Life

By IAN NIALL Tun proposal, recently announced, to have mill- stones as boundary markers in the Peak Park was being criticised in my paper the other day. The writer found......

The Big Heron

Herons, I have heard it said, walk around a lake or pond keeping their feet in the water, leaving no tracks. This may or may not be true. They are more likely to be in the water......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No, 104. H. ZUK (1st Prize, `Magasinet,' 1955) BLACK (5 men) WHITE (6 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves:. solution next week. Solution to last week's problem......

New Novels

The Thing Desired. By Lalage Pulvertaft. (Secker and Warburg, 16s.) Tower in the West. By Frank Norris. (Gollancz, 15s.) The Short Reign of Pippin IV. By John Steinbeck.......

Rain And Shine

Drought seems to be no longer an immediate threat to my part of the world. The river rose over- night and salmon fishermen broke their duck, if this expression can be applied to......

Lifting Tulips

Tulips left in the ground deteriorate and are exposed to a subsequent scorching of the leave that ihdicates disease. To avoid this thebulbs must be stored. A preliminary that......