19 DECEMBER 1970, page 18

The Lives And Songs Of Crows

Sir: Crows, I believe, are ' perfectly nice birds. Of course they don't think, feel (in a human sense) Or speak or have anything else to do with words. They aren't particularly......

Appellations

Sir: We should be grateful to Mr Waugh for his censure of Mr Melvyn Bragg's 'Colonel and Lady Sewell' (14 November) and for thus drawing, attention to a tendency which threatens......

Peel Appeal

Sir: Although rising ninety-six my memory is still green re turtle mar- malade. We had it served to us as a special treat on the old reforma- tory training ship 'Archer', moored......

Competition

No. 635: Her infinite variety Set by Jane Doe: 'Uncertain, coy and hard to please' seems as doubt- fully relevant as 'ministering angel' in these days of Women's Lib, militant......