Game Or Vermin ?
Trappers of another destructive animal, the rabbit, lately pleaded in court that they were catching not game, but vermin. Their argument was not accepted in law, but perhaps the......
Music And The B.b.c.
SIR,—The B.B.C.'s worst sin against music is the execrable singing they encourage in the young person, male and female! I have no words bad enough to describe it. Yours......
The Neutrality Of Eire
SIR,—One reason why Eire is neutral is because its people dislike the thought that they might be killed in hundreds when their cities were bombed or set on fire.—Yours......
The Reason Why
SIR,—You published the letter from E. P. Evans " for the instruction of any who had supposed the spirit of religious intolerance was dead." Did you publish the letter of Cecil......
Books For Trinity College, Dublin
is a painful lesson that one must always be prepared for unpleasant trends in the people one admires most. But I must confess I did not expect the note of petty bitterness which......
Country Life
THE cohorts of immigrant woodpigeons, gleaming in white and fawn, have at last come down upon our fields and gardens in devastating force. They have specialised on Brussels......
Foresters' Hives The Present Minister Of Agriculture (who...
made a special study of rural housing) is singularly well-fitted for his job; and this is rare in the annals of the Ministry ; yet he, too, has learned the " delicate and gentle......
B.b.c. Pronunciation
SIR,—Miss Rose Nlacaulay, in your issue of December t2th, expresses her surprise that the B.B.C. broadcasters pronounce " cumbut " as if it were spelt " combat." Would it not be......
In The Garden Modern Theorists Emphasise More And More The
value of pruning in summer rather than in winter ; but such advice is largely Ills' regarded ; and the present prospects of a late spring give an unusual opportunity both for......
Mr. Nicolson And Horace
SIR,—The shades of Horace's father, if not of Horace, call for an answer to Mr. Nicolson's libel in Marginal Comment. The good collector scorned the provincial school, took his......
National Planned Accounting
Snt,—We are all agreed that the cancer of unemployment must not be allowed to fasten on the nation after this war. as it did after the last. To avoid such a disaster, a vast......
February
How dark the days and brief ; But they grow longer! In the green corn we do foretaste the sheaf, And hope springs stronger; And those bare boughs, our faith endows With panoply......
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