Miss Virginia Graham
SIR,—Although it is but rarely that I am tempted to visit a cinema, I feel it is only Miss Graham's due to record the pleasure derived from her felicitously worded film......
Matchless Trees
On the subject of trees the Forestry Commission have just decided td put the poplars on the-map. .They have offered quite substantial bribei for the planting of this tribe in......
The Progress Of Archaeology
SIR,—In his review of my Hundred Years of Archaeology, Professor Hawkes complains that I,am unfair to some of my contemporaries ; he himself errs on the other side in his......
In The Garden
I once ventured to claim that the finest of all flowering shrubs wad such an unpruned rose as Zephyrine Drouhin. Today one bush of mine has well over 300 flowers. A writer in......
Dean Inge And The League - Sir,—janus Is Not Quite
correct in his recollection of what Dean Inge said at Geneva. (The sermon was preached on the occasion of the Ninth Assembly of the League of Nations, and the text was James......
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The Science Of Birds
That most highly skilled and affectionate observer of birds, E. W. Hendy, concludes an otherwise most charming and characteristic book (More About Birds, Eyre and Spottiswoode,......
Centenarian Subscribers
Snt,—The other day I had a letter from Mrs.-Hazell, of Leyton, who is now in her 104th year, sending me the contents of her missionary box, and telling me that she has supported......
Country Life
A THING one always means to do but never does—such is my experience-1 is to test popular weather prophecies. Now this year, as everyone ha noticed, the ash was very late and the......
Russian Exploits
SIR, —When my eye caught sight of the last item in A Spectator's Notebook in your issue of June 2nd, I could hardly think it had been written by my old friend Janus. It is not......
John Innes
A beautiful country house, in a setting of singularly beautiful trees, has just been opened as the home of the John Innes Horticultural Institution. The name is familiar to most......
Meals On Trains
SM.—Apropos of Janus's remarks about the post of meals' on British Railways, it may not be irrelevant to state that, in Ireland, where the cost of living is higher, lunch on the......
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