The Ambiguous Goat ' Cornwall Offers Another Example. At The
moment it is urging a revival of the goat with ingenuous zeal. Now the goat is said by his- torians to have destroyed at least two civilisations on the Mediterranean, by......
Doctors' Cars Sut,--i Wonder How On Aarth A Body Of
men and women as large as the medical profession could agree to the financial terms laid down under the National Service Health Act. Since these hide-bound rules and terms of......
The Case Of Mr. Sylvester -
StR,—With regard to your editorial The Case of Mr.' Sylvester, published in your issue of October 15th, may I be permitted to point out the following facts: The Defence......
Conscript Service
SIR,—In The Spectator of October 15th " Ex-Regular Officer " describes accurately the reasons for lack of interest in sport and education in the armed Services today. I believe......
Resistentialist Toast
Sta,—Your resistentialist correspondents seem invariably to quote con- ' temporary philosophers and scientists. Why not James Payn who wrote in 1884: "I never had a piece of......
Country Life
NOT all the modern ease of communication has yet succeeded in robbing the English counties of their individuality. Wiltshire, for example. has no very distinctive boundaries and......
Yeats And Others Sir,—in Mr. St. John Ervine's Otherwise...
letter in The Spectator of October 1st, when talking of English poets, he says.: "And " Surely Kipling has been deprecated and patronised enough? We all know how often he......
Innumerable Wings "
How does it come about that one species of animal will suddenly multiply out of all reason? With such creatures as mice and voles there is usually a cycle culminating in a sort......
No Plough, No Spade The No-digging Campaign Advances; And...
the roller begins-to sup- plant the spade. The results of the Chertsey research experiments are awaited with wide interest. It must be remembered that the no-digging theory......
In The Garden
It has often been said, and truly, that flowers pay better than food crops. The "Cloche Guild " in some monthly notes gives two examples, one experimental, in which marigold, of......
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