22 AUGUST 1914, Page 17

"BUSINESS AS USUAL."

[To THE Narrow or THE " SPECTATOR."] STN,—After a day of tension in the City, I had the great pleasure last evening (August 14th) of watching with my glasses for an hour a kingfisher calmly fishing from the eyot at the junction of the Regent's Park and Grand Junction Canals, which is overlooked by the garden of my flat. Although within four hundred yards of the 'buses of the Edgware Road and forty of the trams of Harrow Road, his motto was obviously "Business as usual," and the fact appears to me to be sufficiently remarkable to interest your bird-loving readers.