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week I gave circumstantial details (on the basis of information received), of how the Latin version had been composed by a Rossall master in 1912 or 1913. Now Mr. Leslie Gamage...

un- suecessf ullY for exemption from service as a conscientious Objector , and has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for declining to serve, raises an important, but...

Cambridge Uni- versity unnecessarily into this column; but when the Delhi correspondent of The Times lays stress on the fact that, with Mr. Nehru Prime Minister of India, Mr....

and it seems appropriate to begin this collection of extracts with a Notice on the Long-Haired Angora Goat."—Journal of the Royal Society of Arts.

the new Revised Standard Version of, the Bible, at a time when churches are said to be empty and interest in religion confined to a diminishing minority It is true that it is in...

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M R. EVELYN WAUGH will have done nothing but an ill service to the Roman Catholicism in whose name he writes (though he claims to speak for many other Christians) in dealing as...

By DR. NORMAN SYKES, F./3.A.* tc ID me to live, and ',will live Thy Protestant to be," wrote Robert Herrick to Anthea; and as a tribute of personal fealty the word is innocent...

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By STEPHEN BONE I REMEMBER a wet day in a Scottish village. I was young and newly come from the south. I was a keen sightseer, but through the window no sight was to be seen...

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the formation of his Reindeer Council, which may well usher in a new economic form of great value in combating depopulation in the Highlands and Islands, but I fear one must...

Sta,—In your issue of November 28th you describe the use of the " Guillotine " before the committee stage of the Bill is even begun as "a new way of bringing this dangerous...

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and March. Young trees should definitely be left until the end of February when the buds will have swollen. Even the old trees must be handled with care, because the frost will...

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SIR,-1 have been waiting to see if any of your readers would write to you in protest against your sending to criticise the Pickwick Papers film a lady who has never read the...

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