26 JANUARY 1940, page 14

Country Life

Winter Bravery The rigours of the frost have quite overcome the timidities of some of the larger birds, especially rooks and gulls. Gulls assemble, for example, daily in the......

Beans !

Perhaps the most desirable of all special efforts to increase the supply of food in gardens is the introduction of the dwarf bean for consumption in the dried state. At the......

Vegetarian English Pulse, Of Course, Has Particular Value...

is scarce. There is or was, one school of vegetarian, so called, who con- demned peas, beans and lentils as not less evil than meat, on the ground of their likeness. The......

The Happy Prophet

The absence of reports on the weather both in newspapers and the B.B.C. has begun to restore to the aged countryman control of his favourite subject. Some while ago, as I......

A Day Dawns

By LUIGI PIRANDELLO T HE dawn seemed somehow to have paused—to be lingering on the dim window-pane, too fatigued to breathe into the squalid room. Then slowly, like a ghost, it......