12 SEPTEMBER 1940, page 14

" Non-aryans "

Sist,—I call your attention to an unfortunate usage which sometimes, though rarely, appears in your columns. On page 235 of your issue of September 6th in a paragraph on "......

Fewer Birds From An Eminent Scholar Comes To Me An

ode, in Latin alcaics, on Daedalus, and a query about birds. The air-raids suggested the ode, and the continued brilliance of the rowan berries the question. The berries have......

Daedalus A Word About The Natural History Of Flight. A

number of people through the ages have prophesied the conquest of the air from the Daedalian myth to Roger Bacon and Tennyson, whose " airy navies grappling in the central blue......

Country Life

Sensitive Ducks The manager of a home farm got into trouble because the ducks made so much noise that they kept the household awake! His apology was that the birds could not......

The Feeding Of Europe

your paragraph . on American opinion regarding the Hoover proposals for the feeding of countries occupied by the Nazis you say that a Gallup Poll showed that 62 per cent. of......

Drought - Loving Plants That Best Of All Dahlias, At...

those who are not particularly fond of dahlias, the Bishop of Llandaff, has discovered a new virtue this year. It has flourished beyond the ordinary in a drought that has......