20 APRIL 1956, page 43

Sometimes It's Hard To See What Makes A Best-seller Sell;

but v " 1 11 Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (Cassell, 12s. 6d.), which I understand has been a best-seller in the States' it's very plain; Besides the obvious......

A Piping Starling

Apart from the cry of the nesting plover and the sounds from a rookery, I think one of the delights of spring, or any other time of the year when one is lucky enough to hear it,......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL ONE becomes very used to living in a. quiet, place. Until yesterday we could listen to the morning songsters, and at lunch, if we paused for a moment and shut our......

Spring Salmon

The excitement along the river at this time of year ebbs and flows as anglers take account of weather reports and water levels at known marks, for salmon, come upriver by fits......

Sowing In Relays

Successional sowings are the secret of many a -well-stocked small garden. The rush to get things in tends to make the average little plot overcrowded with things better produced......

Chess

BY PH ILIDOR No. 46 M. LIPTON (1st Prize, MeWilliam`Under 21 Tourney ,I955) BLACK (8 men) WHITE (10 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to......