10 AUGUST 1929, page 16

Blackbird Versus Thrush

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Sir W. Beach Thomas's notes on "Blackbird versus Thrush" and "Frost Victims" in your" Country Life" of May 18th remind me of the great......

Religion Without The Creeds

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Ball says truly that " we are not born with a creed." Neither are we born with the principles of mathematics, but that does not......

Feathered Pensioners

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Slit,—I am encouraged by Mr. Anderson Ramsay's letter, in your issue of June 8th, to tell of another incident. I am accustomed to provide a......

Ethics Of Hunting

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—We came home from Kenya when your paper was in the middle of a correspondence about stag hunting. It is so strange how some people can see......

Child Slavery In Hong Kong-the Mui Tsai System

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— A considered and solemn pledge was made to the country in the House of Commons by Mr. Churchill on March 21st, .1922, to abolish finally,......

Bird Foster-parents

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—I think the following true story may interest some of your readers. In a wood near here there lives a semi-wild cat, which often makes its......