Wasp Wisdom Before The Season For Wasps Is Quite Over,

and while what I hope is the final assault of the pests continues, I must hasten to thank more than a dozen people who have written me about the treatment of wasp nests. It is......

Conkers

There are, I imagine, few men who cannot recall having played conkers. I regularly caught the fever when the season came round in my boyhood, and had all sorts of ideas on how......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No, 70. G. H. GOETHART WHITE ( to men) solution next week. * It is a great temptation, and a dangerous weakness, to try to make more of an advantage than the......

Solution To Crossword No. 90i Across.-1 Muscat. 4 Clear Off.

9 Noised, H) Marathon. 12 Mulberry. 13 Citron, 15 Nail. 16 Accomplice, 1) Free for all, 20 Apes. 23 Double, 25 Triphone. 27 Lancegay. 28 Hipped, 29 Rarities. 30 Gerund. -......

Potato Harvest

Clamping potatoes is, generally speaking' less satisfactory than storage indoors. Ripeness is decided by the state of the haulm and the firm setting of the skin of the potato.......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL Local_ controversies vary in intensity as well as in their area, and we are in the midst of one now that embraces not the adjoining parish, but a more distant city.......

New Novels

ONCE you have read a few novels, it becomes rare to meet a com- pletely new way of life in fiction, an outlook that strikes you as genuinely surprising. We have all .of us lived......