14 SEPTEMBER 1944, page 18

Astraea Redux

The brown squirrel is, I think, multiplying again after some very lean years. A melancholy corroboration has been recorded in my neighbourhood, where no brown native squirrel......

Country Life

DWELLERS by the Chiltern rivers, such as the Mimram, lament the disappearance of their upper reac hes. Others by such rivers as the Lea and Gade lament their pollution and the......

Desert Warrior. By Patrick Hore-ruthven. (john Murray....

produced little volume contains 14 short Poen" by the late Major Hore-Ruthven and a portrait of the author, along with a preface by Lady Gowrie, the poet's mother, and bri......

Restaurant Roundabout. By T. A. Layton. (duckworth. I26....

enjoying a light book of this kind one must lay aside the irrelevant fury inspired by remembering how many better books are lying out of print through lack of paper, how many......

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• Rustic Wisdom

A landworker new to the particular district has come upon an eloquent example of what has been called " the tyranny of the chain." Most of our land measurements, as well as our......

Philosophical Commentaries. By George Berkeley, Edited...

notes by A. A. Luce. (Nelson. 3i gns.) THESE are the contents of the two notebooks in which Bishop Berkeley almost systematically jotted down his thoughts, sometimes known as......

In My Garden In A Very Interesting Discussion Going On

among gardeners and biologists it has been suggested that the growing by Continental gardeners of radishes, carrots, lettuces and cauliflower in the same frame is an example of......