New Novels
Far, Far the Mountain Peak. By John Masters. (Michael Joseph, 15s.) The Red Rock Wilderness. By Elspeth Huxley. (Chatto and Windus, 15s.) BECAUSE to write a good historical......
More Bees
`I must apologise for an error 1 inadvertently made in my letter regarding the little heaps of soil in your Hampshire reader's paths,' says a correspondent , who continues, 'The......
Country Life
By IAN NIALL AT times when I climb to the tops of mountains, as I not infrequently do in summer, it strikes me that a vast area of wasteland, that only by a stretch of imag-......
Horse Fairs
Horse fairs are much harder to find now than, say bull fairs, for to have a horse fair there must be enough horses to sell. It seems a pity that one of the old horse fairs,......
Chess
By PHILIDOR No. 103. A. ELLERMAN (1st Prize, Good Companions, 1919) BLACK (8 men) WHITE (13 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's......
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