7 JUNE 1957, page 27

Peeping Tom

A reader sends a photograph of a blue:4U which, for nearly three weeks, played Peeping Tom through the windows of his house, and remarks, 'For the first week it was outside the......

Shorter Notices

The Scriptures of the Dead Sea Sect in English Translation, by T. H. Gaster (Seeker and War- burg, 30s.; unabridged paper-bound edition, 10s. 6d.), should have the same kind of......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL WITH things in season all men should be content, although at times this is far from the case. On the other side of the picture there is no denying the delight we......

Cats Aloft

The place for a bird is in a tree and the place for a cat is on the ground, although neither seems to regard this as a law except when the cat finds a bird on the ground or a......

The Shaw-barker Letters, Edited By C. B. Purdom (phoenix...

25s.), is a series of detailed tech- nical letters between two great men of the theatre strangled after a mere seventeen years because Helen Huntington, Barker's second wife,......

June Drop

The June drop is an inevitable happening, perhaps; but it can be anticipated by thinning the clusters on trees that are heavy cropping. Well-set fruit is firmly fixed, but not......