3 JANUARY 1931, page 16

The House-party

BY E. S. DUFFIN. [This story was chosen by Dr. M. R. James as a close rival to the one to which he awarded the prize in our Ghost Story Competition last week. —ED. Spectator.]......

Tree-planting For. Amateurs—i

BY R. C. K. Exson. DICK to pieces in your mind almost any landscape which is not dominated by sea or mountain ; ask what gives it beauty, charm, distinction, or the reverse ;......