Country Life

By IAN NIALL FURTHER to my recent remarks on laying-away hen s ' a correspondent writes to comment .on the fact that a domestic fowl is said to have nested in a . tre e. I can......

Fantasy And Reality

'My early life came back to me and I saw those sloppy houses in Mayo, and the landlords who married their scullery-maids and brought them into the drawing-room after they had......

New Novels

Giovanni's Room. By James Baldwin. (Michael Joseph, 15s.) The Volcanoes Above Us. By Norman Lewis. (Cape, 15s.) Tuts is a vintage week : two novels possess really outstanding......

Judgment

'Said it wass drink what brought 'im down, but 'e never could tell the truth about nothin% It wassn . drink! It wass the thirst 'e was born withr—verdi ct on X, 'sent up the......

Manna

When a piece of bread dropped on to the gra s . s I saw that a crow had been forced to relinquish 't by an aggressive neighbour. In the meantime 3 sparrow inspected the bread......

Mild Alarm

Most people who have walked through a sheer grazing have been amused at the way a qu ite innocent-looking ewe will turn her soft features inm as near an expression of......