... John Atkins, is a readable novel about village life, some of it rather surprising life, with the river as the thread, so to speak, that holds the theme and the people together. In Feather Bedding (Faber and Faber 10s. 6d.), a collection of short essays ...

... is no need to wait for the arrival of a beach-watcher or a policeman when an emergency arises. White, Wild and Race Horses Speaking of the sea, there is a new, pleasant little anthology. In Praise of the Sea (F. Muller as. 6d.), which has been put together ...

... opinion, to say nothing of about 300 photo graphs it is as diverse a collection of golfiana as anyone is likely to come across. Speaking of the nineteenth, there is a recent little book called Port and Sherry, by Patrick Sandeman, who writes in simple terms ...

... the Rifle (Jordan and Sons 12s. 6d.) first appeared in 1940 and has been reissued and revised at intervals ever since which speaks for itself on the book's value. Without a House Caravanning or camping is heaven to some people, sheer unadulterated misery ...

... an Introduction to his most interesting book, Profitable Forestry (Faber and Faber; 15s.), Lord Bolton writes: broadly speaking, it can be said that private woodlands of 100 acres or over should not show a loss in any year and, under good management ...

... thoroughly, and the author's style is very readable, though one could wish that we might be spared the horrid word gunner in speaking a syndicate shoots a preying of stockbrokers is nice Incidentally, Mr. Arnold is not condemning the syndicates out of hand ...

... content of Austrian cheeses is state controlled. The book concludes with numerous recipes from various parts of the world. And speaking of recipes, that is to say cooking, The Aga Recipe Book (Wilding and Son 12s. 6d.) is available in two versions, for the ...

... approach any of the English white hunters. I had been snubbed by some Englishmen I had met in Canada always my own fault for speaking to them without being introduced and while I had defended myself as stoutly as possible, I had not liked the experience. ...

... hydrogen bomb have crept into this edition, of over 1,000 pages, of what has been called the standard reference book of English-speaking animal-owners in all parts of the world. The Dictionary is illus trated with 36 photographs and 326 diagrams. Cross-references ...

... in fact a far from dead sport, and there are many more men practising it, women, too, than catch the public eye. Generally speaking, the ex- perienced falconer is a little reluct ant to encourage others to take up j the recreation, partly because he knows ...

... example, quite unaware that wildcats are common animals in the West Highlands and assume, when one refers to them, that one is speaking of domestic cats run wild, not of the tawny, lynx-like ferals that had their den, that and every other year, within two hundred ...

... who live in towns. The subjects dealt with include: yeast cookiU hanging wallpaper, rug -making! hedgerow basketry, how to speak in public, edible and inedible fungi, and a host of others. Wew Photograms 1961 (Itiffe and II Sons Ltd.; 21s.) contains a ...