Country Life
By IAN NIALL EvLav year one seems to comment on seasonal or unscasonal weather at the onset of winter and ponders whether the December primrose is a promise of things to come or......
Chrysanthemums
Depending on the climate, chrysanthemum sto ols are sometimes lifted and replanted under glass. A friend sets his in ashes and finds they come on well for cuttings in the early......
'while Having Tea By The Fire I Was Reading Your
paragraph on the little owl,' says a correspondent. 'I then went upstairs and shut the casement windows, my mind still on the subject of owls. On the landing I turned on the......
Chess
By PHILIDOR No. 130. E. POULSEN elV1agasInet,' June, ISO BLACK (9 men) WHITE (II men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution Fle d week. Solution to last week's problem......
Carrying A Hare
Passing a man on the road the other day I noticed that he had a hare which he had either, snared or picked up on the road, victim of an accident. The dead hare was being held by......
Vitality And Courage
Come Dance With Me. By Ninette de Valois. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) As a Governor of the Royal Ballet School, I wish this book every success. Dame Ninette is the creator of a......
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