Poetry From Oxford
Sut,—During the next few months I shall be editing a volume of poetry from Oxford for the Fortune Press. It will consist of work from those in residence at the University from......
Sir,—yes, Puffer Is Right. After His Great Bowling Feat...
the Australians, a cricketing poet addressed to them some friendly advice in a rhythm made popular by Austin Dobson. So far as I can remember after more than fifty years it......
In The Garden Everyone Will Have Noticed The Efforts Of
makers of garden catalogues to describe colour. "Terra-cotta-salmon" is one such phrase. In one catalogue, kirsten and karcn, those almost indistinguishable Poulsen polyan-......
Escaped Prisoners
A strange tale of the sparrow's intelligence and parental affection is told me Two birds were watched again and again from close quarters in the act of pushing beak-loads of......
English Heather Those Who Migrate To Scotland In August And,
whether interested, or not in grouse, grow ecstatic about the glory of bell-heather, may forget how beautiful are the commons up to the very edge of London. Ling is the......
Country Life
IT was suggested last lo.eck that the harvest of this year was likely to be , the earliest in the records, though it began later than some, because of the speed of its......
Pougher Of Leicester
SIR,—Allow me to set at rest all doubts about Pougher of Leicester. Never mind Wisden. I know that he existed, because many years ago I met the man, and a very nice man he was,......
Dovzhenko's Films
Sta,—Mr. Basil Wright wonders whether, in my reference to "Dovzhenko's juxtaposition of newsreel shots," I had intended to name not Dovzhenko but Vertov and his Kino-Eyc. No,......
Fewer Sparrows
In the many harvest fields that I have visited I have seen no single instance of damage by sparrows ; I am inclined to think that they are a diminishing species in many places.......
Sut,—dougher Is Right. I Was One Of The Crowd On
that great day and we all said Puffer. I am now myself an elderly BOUCHER.......
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