Beehive Inspection
Yesterday I went along the path to the beehives and inspected the boxes, seeing that the lids were still firmly down and the wire bracings to hold against the gale were all......
Country Life
SomE days ago I had a letter from a friend who spoke of the compensations of living in a remote place—a verdant part of County Clare. I spent my impressionable years on a......
Be The Plural Of That ?—yours Faithfully, Geoffrey Bolton...
Fields, Near Oxford......
Si,12,—would Compton Mackenzie Be Kind Enough To Clear Up A
doubt still hovering in ray mind from his article of February 5th ? 10 Hans Place, S.W.1 MEDICAL STUDENT......
Sir,—a 'literally' Which Sir Compton Mac- Kenzie May Not...
in his unusual collection occurs in a passage of John Cowper Powys's Autobiography, paying figurative tribute to his brother Llewelyn. He describes him as " . . . more full of......
Talking To S. Who Has Many Contacts In The Countryside
round about, I gathered that the spell of bleak snowy weather did not catch the hill farmers completely unawares. As so often happens, snow on the morrow was anticipated by the......
-sta.,—i Have Been Reading About English In The Spectator. I
was fifth in Latin last term. November means ninth month, so it is the proper name for September, and December is the proper name for October, so we ought to call them like'......
Sir,-1 Have Waited In Vain For Someone To Expose The
fallacies in Sir Compton 'Macken- zie's article on English pronunciation in the Spectator of January 22nd. The main point is that in words derived from Latin and Greek, the......
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