13 FEBRUARY 1942, page 8

The Wood Fire

By SIR STEPHEN TALLENTS M Y first experience as a tree-owner, now some fifteen years ago, was to find three great elms one morning uprooted by a gale in front of my house. They......

Seashore And War

By PROFESSOR C. M. YONGE A MONG our national possessions are included some half million acres of shore, alternately covered and uncovered by the sea. This is a region of great......

Well Spoken

How marvellous it seems, you young Announcers, that each place should have its Name spoken trippingly on the tongue- Rzhev, or Mal') Yaroslavetz. Polysyllabic be the siege,......