23 JANUARY 1932, page 12

A Rat Year.

Stories of the abnormal number of rats come from all parts of the country ; and there are particular places much in need of a pied piper. This sudden multiplication, though it......

Country Life

HISTORIC THAMES. That useful and charming form of literature, invented by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, con- sisting of a sort of historico-aesthetic survey......

The Point On Which The Nation Itself Must Come To

a decision is the method of compensation. Beauty is value ; for some people will give immense sums for the right to spoil it. The private owner who sees his acres acquiring......

Escapes," Now A Technical Word For Escaped Captives, Are...

commoner than is generally realized. In the annual records of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society (pro- cured from the Hon. Secretary, 31 Surrey Street, Norwich) are......

Once Or Twice, At Any Rate, Quail Have Been Released

in this country, but the quail that have been recorded are proper migrants. Years ago they were common enough. They were, for example, shot in several successive years by a......

That Deficiency Is Now Being Made Good At Great Speed.

The work is rather more laborious and costly than some expected, for the native chalk (which comes within an inch or two of the surface) needs considerable reinforcement ; but......

Progress At Whipsnade.

The evolution of Whipsnade into the Zoo of the future moves apace. When some of us first visited the place many years ago, before it was so much as fenced, what most struck the......

The Dangers To The Thames-by-london Are Great. Even Such...

spots as Runelagh have no assurance of being left to the control of a mere private society. Syon House and Park are a threatened gem ; the Garden House, the Georgian boathouse,......