22 MAY 1947, page 15

Pink Feathers Someone, Whose Letter Has Vanished, Sent Me...

other day a few, brightly pink leatChers picked up on the shore near St. David's in Pembrokeshire. They are an interesting find. It seems to be tolerably certain—on the......

In My Garden That Excellent Organisation, The National...

has just issued (from 7 Albemarle Street, W. 1) a most admirable list of Garden Books for the Amateur, under 21 heads (price 9d.). It is even daintily illus- trated. I am so......

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Noise And Song • It Is Said, With Undoubted Truth,

that birds can be stirred to song by the stimulus of a 'cello or fiddle. The experiment has been made successfully with the nightingale. Other than musical sounds seem to......

Tan Countryside And Its Preservation Do Not Much Concern...

most beneficent body, the Pilgrim Trust (though last year it gave £1,000 to the C.P.R.E.). It is concerned more with bricks and stones than trees and rivers ; but every......

" Iesen? " Said Miss Modern, When I Mentioned Last

week's broad- cast of A Doll's House. " Oh, he's a complete back number, as out of date as Queen Victoria herself. Just look at those side- whiskers! " I don't know whether this......

Absent Icemen The Theory That Buchan Or Other Periods Of

warmth or cold or wet or wind have fixed dates in the year's calendar has been abruptly con-, tradicted by recent experience. The Festival of the Three Icemen (which has a wide......