Contents

EDITORIAL

LETTERS

SOCIETY NEWS
1999 Society Gathering planned for Church Stretton
Forthcoming Society events
The summer picnic and treasure hunt - Daniel Gee
Summary of annual accounts - Mark O'Hanlon
The latest Saville news in brief
Feedback from the forms - Mark O'Hanlon

CHRISTMAS QUIZ

BETWEEN THE LINES
Fifty years ago - welcome the jillies - Stephen Bigger
'Clouds of fragrant blue smoke' - Sam Young
Some early influences on Malcolm Saville? - J. B.

SAVILLE COUNTRY
Where the rocky horror show lives on - Christopher Somenville
Tracking the Lone Piners: Mystery Mine - Robert Smart

ALONG THE SHELVES
Taking stock of the Booksearch - Colin Harding
Book review: The Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead Railway: The Nickey
   Line by Sue and Geoff Woodward
Bibliographical notes: Lone Pine Five and The Elusive Grasshopper -
   Guy Hawley