Chess
By PHILIDOR Nu. 13. I. NEUMANN BLACK, 10 men. WHITE to play and mate in tea) moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Rietveld: Kt-Kt 5, .±.( *I line......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL WHEN I was a small boy we used to have picnics towards the end of summer and our route used to lie across a moor where peat was cut by the farmers. The moor road......
Americans Visiting Oxford Are Apt To Ask Searching...
FitzRandolph in her painstaking booklet has had them, and per- haps the harassed guide, principally in mind. Both will find the answers to their historical problems succinctly......
The End Of The Line, By Bryan Morgan. (cleaver-hume, 25s.)
THOSE who dream of the miniature trains which England knew and lost can turn to Mr. Morgan's survey of little old trains in the Low Countries, France, Italy, Austria,......
Tim Publishers Of Legends Of Ireland Rightly Draw...
a curious feature of the book: 'a kind of deprecatory self-conscious- ness which occasionally appears as a mild burlesque of the narrator's own art.' Mr. Campbell writes of......
Harvest Plaits
One of the pleasures of harvest used to be when the binder came to the last two or three cuts of corn. An army gathered with guns and sticks to deal with the rabbits, and there......
Devotion Of Dogs
We were talking not long ago about an old dog owned by two members of the family, and it was remarked that the dog in his declin- ing years has become inordinately jealous of......
Comeos R The Best Way Of Managing A Compost Heap
is to have it out in the open and to alternate layers of vegetable matter with layers of soil, keeping the heap confined and yet aerated by means of a stout mesh wire enclosure......
A Spectator Competition For Schools
THREE prizes of eight guineas each are offered for the three best original descriptive reports (between 500 words and 750 words) of any notable event occurring between July 1,......
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