Char Fishing Potted Char Are Things That Haven't Come My

way. Nor have I as yet caught a char, the red-bellied, handsome fish of Windermere and at least one of the Welsh lakes. They can be caught on a fly, but most are taken by other......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 120 Specially contributed by J. HARING (Holland • BLACK (8 men) WHITE (12 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution nex t week. Solution to last week's......

Marching On

With the Guards to Mexico! By Peter Fleming. (Hart-Davis, 16s.) PROSE writers, whose experience of the world is limited to their typewriters, two or three Paris cafes, a trip to......

New Novels

The Midwich Cuckoos. By John Wyndham. (M ichael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) The Black Obelisk. By Erich Maria Remarque. (Hutchinson, 15s.) The Black Obelisk. By Erich Maria Remarque.......

Relatively Poor

'Sort of cousins o' me Dad's they was, but we didn't 'ave nothin' to do wi"em. When she got married vin was invited an' we went, but only to see what they 'ad, an' they 'adn't......

Spartan Life

Among my g,randfither's most awe-inspiring tales of hard times was one of a journey he made on foot with nothing to sustain him, through blizzard and darkness and countless......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL A MAN I met along the road today was complaining that he was quite worn out searching for secret nests, the bugbear of the amateur poultrykeeper who cannot dream of......