20 SEPTEMBER 1940, page 10

Country Life

A White Migration The group of biologists who have been pioneers into that odd corner of science, the migration of insects, took some suggestive observations during the immense......

Intensive Cultivation What A Deal Of Food Can Be Produced

from a small plot! For innumerable years I have taken a particular interest in intensive cultivation, and still regard Prince Kropotkin's Fields, Factories and Workshops as one......

An Ominous Dove

We were watching the grim wonder of the searchlights, the wicked sparking of shells and an occasional flare, when a pure white pigeon appeared from nowhere and perched within......

The Cinema

"I Was an Adventuress." At the Odeon-"Yesterday's Over Your Shoulder." At all Cinemas. IT seemed at first as though the aerial blitzkrieg would close cinemas both in London and......

Important Notice Readers Are Again Reminded Of The...

ordering " The Spectator " regularly, since newsagents can no longer be supplied on sale-or-return terms.......

Dreary Gleams

A chance allusion to the curlew's note and to Tennyson's " dreary gleams" has brought an interesting note on that popular passage, recording Tennyson's own views on his phrase.......