10 MAY 1940, page 17

Sir,—let Us All Agree With Mr. L. H. Callendar That

the dis- cussing of the best books is endlessly fascinating, and add, affords a pleasure only second to the reading of them. That is, of course, provided a kindly tolerance is......

"the Witch In The Wood"

Snt,—I am as glad to retract such injustice as, in my review of The Witch in the Wood, I appear to have done to Miss Rebecca West and other English critics, as I am reassured to......

Country Life

The Country Wins Three delightfully ingenuous views about country things may be recorded from three very different parts of the island. A land girl of my acquaintance reports......

The Superior Hill Gardeners Who Swop Experiences Of The...

only just appearing—from the hard winter, are multiplying examples of the comparative immunity of upland as opposed to valley gardens. In one lovely and well-protected valley......

The Cost Of Marriage

Sta,—Mr. G. H. Gretton says that TM let population be checked by the misery of those who raise large families" is a Malthusian precept. He errs. The precept of Malthus and the......

Gallant Robins It Would Appear From More Than One Letter

which has reached me that observers wonder at the sight of a cock robin feeding the hen. Among my robin acquaintance was a pair that used to come regularly to a window for food.......

Primrose Weeds

Anger against the nightingale in Hertfordshire may be paralleled with an example of animosity against the primrose in Devonshire. An admirer of this sweetest of wild flowers,......

Sicagerrak And Icattegat

Sia,—I cannot for the life of me see why " Janus " finds the "Skagerrak and Kattegat" advertisement "astonishing." To me it looks much the same as its predecessors in this "Beer......