17 NOVEMBER 1939, page 20

The Spectator No. Io

PRIZES of book tokens for £2 2S. and LI is. are offered for a dissertation (of not more than 35o words) on The English Week-End, as it might be written by a foreign......

Vintage Years

It has happened with inexplicable frequency that war-years have proved famous for the best vintages. Are they also famous for autumn coloration? If I may give a personal......

The Sanctity Of England

It is appropriate both to the date and to general fitness that the National Trust should have taken up its war-time head- quarters near West Wycombe, the beautiful village that......

A Diary

Were ever the Barberries more splendid in leaf and berry? A beautiful combination is the white-stemmed Dictyophyllum with the purple-leaved Thunbergi or Prattii. The excep-......

A Pheasants' Feast

A cursory examination of the food of some particularly plump pheasants proved the unexpected fact that they had been feeding almost exclusively on tomatoes and woody night-......