22 NOVEMBER 1940, page 13

Hilda Matheson

(oh. 30 X. 40.) By V. SACKVILLE-WEST T ALWAYS thought of her as a sturdy pony. The tragedy 1 to us, her friends, is that the pony was not so sturdy as w e thought! It trudged,......

Country Life

Birds and Raids My attention is constantly being drawn to the fact that "the birds hate the air-raids." But oddly enough, though I must by now have watched some hundreds of......

More Vegetables, More Imagination More Sweat Than...

have gone into the campaign for the increased production of vegetables, which appears generally to have been based on the Continental gibe that the English eat nothing but......

Liddell And Scott

By W. B. SELBIE T HERE lies before me the old Liddell and Scott which I used as a boy at school more than sixty years ago. It is dirty, thumbed, dog-eared, and the binding is......

The Onion Problem More Than Five Years Ago, When No

one could possibly have dreamed that onions would sell for a shilling a pound (a price of nearly £6 per cwt., as compared with 6s. per cwt. for potatoes), a note in this column......