25 NOVEMBER 1905, page 13

" How Well I Know What I Mean To Do

When the long dark autumn evenings come." Or the pleasure of anticipating long hours of mere reading P It is true enough that when the hours come there is for most of us......

But Our Winter Migrants Are Mostly Exiles From Scandi-...

frosts and snows. They are but aliens, desirable and welcome aliens, driven here in search of food. They have no errand but to pick up a meal, and no intention but to get back......

Chuck Of The Head, As Much As To Say, It

is all right; the young man is used to claret." If Borrow was always urbane under the roof of an inn, was the greatest town-lover of all really an urbane person P Real urbanity......

Certainly Been No Unwilling Companion To Mr. E. V. Lucas,

whose charming collection of poetry and prose, "The Friendly Town : a Little Book for the Urbane" (Methuen and Co., 5s.), has just been published. Mr. Lucas has already taken......

Fieldfares.

T HE birds that come to us in spring, when fleecy sunlit clouds are dropping verdure on the meadows and we tread on budding flowers at every step we take, are like our own......