15 NOVEMBER 1940, page 14

Country Life

Country Market The war has robbed many country markets, especially i n the south, of their clap-trap. The sight of a country labourer buying a suit of reach-me-downs from......

From Warsaw To Dunkirk

Sta,—Alas, I have to admit that in trying not to make the mistake of calling General Douhet "French," I did that very thing. He was an Italian ; but when I said this in a public......

Great Dog Of Weimar

Sut,—In his efforts to flog the absurdities of spiritualism, Mr. Graham Greene himself falls into absurdities of more dangerous application. Arnold, contrasting the "tone of the......

Country Canteen To Civilian Town-dwellers It May Seem An...

to say that the rural canteen is, to the average soldier billeted in the country, about the most important thing in life. Thousands of soldiers are now quartered at out-lying......

The Local Nursery Nurserymen Generally Are Not Finding...

The small local nursery, with a trade at the mercy of a fluctuating popu- lation, faces the winter with hard prospects. How many other- wise keen gardeners, who spend hours over......

Rural Salvage The Farce Of Country Salvage Schemes Goes On.

Collections of paper are made once in two or three months, if at all; collections of small scrap iron and glass only when appeal upon appeal has been made; bones lie mouldering......