28 JULY 1928, page 18

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Dancing Ledges, Dorset " DANCING Ledges, Dancing Ledges, Have you been to Dancing Ledges ? O'er the fields and through the hedges, Past the bog bell-heather edges, By the brook......

Points From Letters The Spirit Of Unity.

My sense of fitness is violated when I see the Powers com- placently putting their signatures to a Pact which is hollowness incarnate. The spirit is to remain the same ; words......

Plants In Frost And Drought [to The Editor Of The

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the " Country Life " notes of your issue of April 28th last, Sir W. Beach Thomas, in dealing with " Smudges " for fruit, and the water versus frost......

Octavia Hill

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your statement that " were funds available to demolish all the slums of Great Britain and manage them on Octavia Hill lines, the great......