24 OCTOBER 1941, page 13

Ourselves And Religion

Sirs, — " Russia has some way to go towards religious freedom yet " (fast page of The Spectator of October roth, 1941). The Christian religion has been for far more than a......

So Long

A writer who tries to look at country life in an anu-sentimental way, and writes accordingly, makes more friends than you might suppose. For that reason alone it is hard for me......

Road Deaths

sm,—The pedestrians and the pedal-cyclists cannot share the admira- t i o n of the Report of the Lords' Committee on Road Accidents which is expressed on behalf of the......

Autumn Colours Bracken Is Fox-red In The Stem, Still Green

on the upper fronds. Elderberries show clusters of red stripped fingers when the berries have gone. Beech nuts, not often so fat and sweet as this year, make coffee-brown drifts......

In The Garden The Vegetable Garden Is Now, For The

moment, more important than the flower garden. Put in the last batches of spring cabbage ; dig up beetroot, carrots, early-sown turnips, the last potatoes, storing the first......

A Solution For India

stit, —In your issue of October roth, Mr. Griffin asserts that the panacea for India's ills is democracy, by which he apparently means Government by the Indian National......

Country Life

Tomato Subjects The whole subject of tomatoes, particularly the ripening and keeping of them and their failure from disease, has produced a large correspondence, which, for......

Saving Power Sts,—it Lies Within The Power Of Nearly...

m this country to save electric light for ten to fifteen minutes every day. If everybody switched off their lights when the nine o'clock news began and kept them off till it was......