16 JULY 1948, page 14

A Flaw In Time

HERE, With my cat beside me, purring On the table, by the book of books, I fade from scholarship, deferring Thought, as a bird above a brook's Burble of song, will forget his......

Greedy Bees I Arrived The Other Day At An East

Anglian house at the edge of a country town to find my hosts busy with preparations for taking a swarm of bees suspended from the branch of an apple tree. The swarm was very......

Postage On This Issue : Inland, Lid.; Overseas, Id.

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Sanctuary Successes

The saving or addition of a species of bird to the British list is alwayi welcome, and it is my expectation that the great extension of sanctuarid, especially in Norfolk, will......

British Stock Agricultural Shows, Like Cricket Matches,...

attracted exception91 crowds, but the shows have this advantage over the cricket that numbers of foreigners, most of them buyers, have been attracted. Even Russians, the......

Music

DURING the last week two distinguished singers have given theit services in concerts organised by the United Jewish Relief Appeal. Kirsten Flagstad's song-recital at the Central......

Country Life

THOSE who make holiday on the shores of East Anglia ought to follow their visit with a journey to the extreme south-east. They may be depressed by the evidence of erosion from,......

In The Garden It Is In My View A Welcome

fact that the florists are achieving some of their best results in the production of earlier chrysanthemums (as seen at a recent show of the R.H.S.). It is, of course, agreeable......

The Spectator

AIR EDITION Here this morning—in North America this afternoon. BY AIR: 52 weeks $14.00-43 10s. Od. 26 weeks 117.00—£1 15s. Od. Subscriptions for U.S.A. and Canada may be sent......