Collectors' Items From The Saturday Book. By Olive Cook And
Edwin Smith. (Hutchinson, 21s.) Tuts is, I suppose, the sort of book that will infuriate connoisseurs; for this reason—they will find pictures of the precious objects which they......
Chess
BY PHIL] DOR No. 7. R. GEVERS BLACK WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Andrade: Kt-Kt 7, threat Q-B 4. I ... Kt-K 5; 2 P-Q......
Running Salmon
There was a record bag of salmon on our local river last month. More fish were caught by rods than in the same month of the best seasons since records were kept, and a record......
Other Recent Books
THE ITALIAN INFLUENCE IN ENGLISH POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO SOUTH WELL. By A. Lytton Sells. (George Allen and Unwin, 30s.) THAT English poetry between Chaucer and Southwell was......
An Aesthetic Approach To Byzantine Art.
BOOKS on aesthetics tend to fall into two classes —those which are really philosophy, and have little to do with tangible manifestations of art, and those which deal with works......
Problem Pets
We almost added a hedgehog to the house- hold the other day. It was a young one and the children came marching in with it on a coal shovel, but after someone had pointed out a......
Country Life By Ian Niall We Arc Having Summer Weather
at the moment and with a vengeance, although how long it will last no one knows. As I write, the scent of newly cut grass is in the air and the swifts are high. Almost a week......
Summer Pruning
Summer pruning is a matter for the man who believes in it. The method is to shorten new shoots on apples and pears to help the forma- tion of fruit buds at the base of the......
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