An Apology

SIR, —My attention has been called to a most unhappy breach of grammar and good taste in a recent article of mine, when I wrote so carelessly and colloquially as to use the......

Boarding Schools And The L.c.c.

SIR, —In my opinion it is Sir E. Graham Little who is moved by political prejudice in this matter—prejudice in favour of boarding schools. He does not seem to realise that......

Country Life

IN none of the obituaries of Lord Lee of Fareham did I see any reference to the "inwardness," so to say, of his gift of Chequers to the reigning Prime Minister. He told me, in......

Bradford Via' Shipley Sir,—i Have Just Read Mr. Maurice...

encomium on Bradford, which is very impressive. But my faith in his accuracy was somewhat discounted when i his first paragraph I found that he stressed Bradford's isolation by......

The Novels Of E H. Young

Sia,—In last week's Spectator there is a review of a new book by E. H. Young—Chatterton Square. I know nothing of this, her latest book, but there must be thousands of your......

In My Garden The Vegetable Gardens Of My Neighbours Have

been raided by very numerous jays, bred in small woods where also magpies and jackdaws have enormously increased since the country house was abandoned and no keeper left. Lines......

Sanctuaries In Holland

In the week when the schemes for natural preservation in Britain were published, as a sort of postscript to the Governmental schemes for National Parks, there came to me from......

More Doggerel

A Weybourne dweller, whose parents "always expected the French to land there because of the deep water right in shore," adds some local doggerel rhymes to the better-known......

India's Transition

Sia,—You say that " the territorial division of India is now settled apart from . . . . minor boundary adjustments in the partitioned Punjab." I fear you are optimistic.......

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