7 OCTOBER 1955, page 44

Despite The Depredations Of Nature's Most Ruthless...

golden eagle at present shows signs of strengthening its position in the Scottish Highlands, the only area in the British Isles fortunate enough to be able to count this......

Recent Reprints

THE C.U.P. have reissued William C. Braith- waite's standard work, The Beginnings of Quakerism, which was first published in 1912 and twice reprinted. The new issue is a second......

Blackened Foliage Is The Warning With I Dahlias. Cut Back

the stalks and see that no water is retained in the hollow butts. Begenia $ should be taken up at the same time. The stoic must, above all, be frost-proof and dry.......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL YESTERDAY I found myself standing still to watch a horse and cart go past, so unusual has the sight become. The horse was a rather old one of the Shire breed, and I......

Bird Preservation

A letter about bird preservation in Australia comes from Mr. Max Henry, of Chatswood, NSW, who remarks: 'The growth of natural feeling for the wild life of Australia .has been......

Chess

BY PHILIDOR No. 18. F. LIBBY (1st Prize, 'Morning Post,' 1901) BLACK, 7 men. Warm to play a n d s m o a lu te tio i n n n 2 eit mr e s: An 'old mast er . Solution • to IJcI......

Fishing Dreams

No one who has not fly-fished for trout can really know the heavy-heartedness that assails an angler when the season comes to a close, us' it did but a few days ago. I marked......