11 APRIL 1941, page 14

Black Record" Sir, —your References To This Country Are...

reasonable and well informed that I hardly like to cavil at a small point in "A Spec- tator's Notebook" in your issue of March 28th. The writer states that the circulation of......

Where Are We Going?

SIR, — Those of your readers who are conscious of the danger that, in fighting Nazism, we may begin to copy Nazi methods, will, I believe, share my feeling of alarm at the......

In The Garden Clip Off The Leaves Of Last Year's

spinach instead of digging up the plant ; the young leaves will come in before the new-sown er01. Try a sowing of runner-beans (of which there is already 3 S* I shortage of......

Country Life

Surplus and Diiiribution From Yorkshire comes a contribution to the - garden-surplus problem that is full of gumption. There, as elsewhere, the surplus produce of the district......

Flowering Cypress The flowering shrubs are in their glory ; but who would have thought of a cypress as being among them? A blue variety ol Cupressus Lawsonia wai Planted ten......

Hartington " Am Attempting, In Spite Of The Difficulties Of

the hour, to complete a life of that eighth Duke of Devonshire once universally known as " Hartington." The standard biography by the late Bernard Holland was compiled just -......

Shelter-culture Sir, —dr. H. M. I.ydenberg, Director Of...

Public Library, expresses surprise in a recent letter that "Britain, with its back to the wall, exempted books from the purchase-tax." He should have known, of course, that our......

Christian Education Sue,—the Letters On This Subject Have...

helpful, but I would suggest that there is a danger of the Church overlooking its own tea c h. hag function. After all, Christian education can only be given by th ose who......