Country Life
IT IS difficult to settle down to a morning's work in my study above the cherry orchard. The fruit-pickers have camped there, with caravans, lorries, tents, cara, and all day......
" The Crossness " Sir,—in Spite Of Mr. Roberts's...
I stick to my guns. If one is to generalise—and Mr. Graves was generalising—then it is true to say that " the crossness " is a predominantly Northern expression "Ind that......
Spectator
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In My Garden I Recall Nothing Of The Works Of
the eighteenth-century woman novelist, Regina Maria Roche, except a phrase worth recording." In a novel called The Children of the Abbey (1798), she writes of the garden, and......
Enosis
SIR,—What is " Enosis " (June 24th, p. 849)? My books of reference give no clue. Has it anything to do with the uplift given by Eno's Fruit Salts, or with R. L. Stevenson's " to......
The Record Of Mihailovich
SIR. —Your reviewer of Mr. Stephen Clissold's book on Tito states that fairly soon in the Yugoslav struggle it became clear that Mihailovich " was not in fact seriously fighting......
Forgotten Formula
SIR, —Janus quotes "a plain and sober formula enabled Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819 to transform the desolate island of Singapore into a world market-place almost overnight. . .......
Another Encounter What A Contrast In Social Consciousness...
with another rustic meeting which I had during the hot April weather. We had climbed up from the village of Varenna to the alpine foothills behind Lake Como. The sun of noonday......
Social Evidences What Is Most Noticeable, However, Is The...
in the social con- duct of these amateur nomads who invade the fruit-growing country. The fawning semi-gipsy is scarce. The human lurchers who steal and light, worrying farmers......
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