_ Another Thought Visited Me A J S -i Looked On. Our
villages, in a con- tinuum of 4,000 years, orgapised their osm forms of play as a cultural expression of their work,,in the fields. The, daily husbandty, the fruits of the earth......
Sir,—may I Add To Harold Nicolson's "words That Have...
a tragic downfall" the now obsolete "cant." It bobbed on the surface of eighteenth-century conversation like a marker-buoy above a wreck, and its presence gave warning of false......
Country Life
Tim Waterperry Nurseries, which I mentioned a fortnight ago, has- caught up and recharged with vitality the moribund (or shall I say murdered ?) tradition of the Big House in......
Unesco Salaries
SIR,—The answer to Janus's question, "Can we really afford this kind of thing ? " is that the United Nations and its specialised agencies cost less than the wars they are......
Trent Bridge To Baker * Street Sir,—mr. Mallalieu's...
from Nottingham should not have disturbed your correspondent Mr. W. Herbert Spencer. After his murder of the Trent Bridge groundsman Mr. Mallalieu also had his Final Problem,......
The Wilde Parents
Sta.—Your issue of April 27th reached this mess on July 8th. Mr. Ervine's review of Wyndham's life of Lady Wilde is perhaps not very informative but it is certainly very......
The Fete
I happened to be one of the judges of the procession of vehicles that opened the fête there in July, and my barely concealed view was that every turn-out ought to have had first......
In The Garden A Correspondent Asks Me Why Her Strawberries
are like bullets this year but does not state their strain and year If they are the new Cambridge strain, I believe the cause is their excessive prolificacy and -that the......
"i Couldn't Care Less
99 SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson does well to castigate the current phrase "I couldn't care less." Is not this that subtlest of the seven deadly sins known of old as accidie, and......
Rowing And Rugger
SIR, —Your correspondent, Mr. H. W. Pearson, makes one or two some- what surprisin g .statements. He doubts, for instanc , .., "whether the' crowds of university m e n at Putney......
Yale University
SIR,—Vale University is 250 years old this year, and in February, 1952, the anniversary will be celebrated in New Haven. The Yale-in-Britain Association is collecting......
The Modern Sunday
But what a revolution that English villages from "the quietest places under the sun" have become the noisiest! The traditional Sunday evening is shattered by "the roaring of the......
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