Birds That Come And Go If Some Birds Vanish Or
grow rare, some increase. Among these may be reckoned the bittern. A pair, which showed a certain tameness, were flushed the other day in Hertfordshire, where this bird has been......
Country Life
Ir is, I think, a sign of the times that a woman farmer is to be one of the four farmers who are to visit the United States and Canada to learn and lecture. They go officially......
Prognostic Faiths
There seems to be a general conviction abroad—indeed, one paper accepts the prognostic as a faith—that we are approaching a hard and bitter winter. Is there any evidence......
Hold The Emperor Responsible
SIR,—We have just had another exposure of the barbarous treatment of our prisoners by the Japanese, and the only comfort the British and United States Government can offer to......
In My Garden
A garden process (approved by cooks) is to defend the parsley patch with the cloche or by other means ; but the wiser cooks will dry all the herbs they can. There seems to be a......
Sensitive Birds
The other day a remote but quite audible explosion in the small hours was followed by a loud and general chattering among birds. It was remarkable that on this occasion the......
The Italian People Have Just Returned From Italy And It
was with some surprise, as well as regret, that I read in your issue of November 17th Mr. Blissett's diatribe against the Italians. Although he is so positive about the views of......
Guns Of Metz
Sta,—In turning over the pages of my 1914 diary I found pasted in a cutting from The Spectator which reads, " Guns of Metz ": " Guns of Verdun point to Metz From the plated......
The Injured .workman
SIR,—Dr. Roth will find information about the National Health Service in the White Paper published last February. He will see that one of the main objects of that Service will......
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