2 APRIL 1954, page 15

Killing Horses

SIR,--it must have been with feelings of deep pity and indignation that all lovers of animals read the account of the Grand National in which three horses were killed and......

Rheumatism

S ni ,-- -Your annotation presents a provocative, but somewhat confused picture, of a compli- cated problem, which, with its limited r esources, the country has not as yet been......

Shakespeare's Daffodils The Usual Interpretation Of "...

of March with beauty " seems to be that the winds were very taken with the daffodils but the New Temple Shakespeare goes further- " The winds of March are not only capti- vated;......

Bizet

was written when he was obsessed by Verdi, and of Hoist's first dramatic works which suffered from a similar obsession with Wagner, Mr. Martin Cooper says: " Bizet and Hoist......

Once, When I Was Troubled By Mice Stealing The Newly-sown

peas which I had neglected to treat with red lead or paraffin, 1 foolishly set two or three mousetraps among the twigs that were to cover the young pea shoots and caught not......

Critics And Cameras

Siit,—Your Strix should check his facts before printing a damaging statement that the drama- tic critic of the Daily Express "having pre- sumably seen I An a Camera at Brighton,......

,,, 8111 ,—in Your Issue Of March 26th, Mr. Cyril...

that as a symbolic gesture of solidarity, European frontiers remain corn- Pletely open for one day between Belgium and Luxemburg. May I point out to him that all passports and......

My Companion Opened His Flybox To Show Me A Neat

little fly tied by one of the masters of fly-tying in our locality. This fly, he said, was the answer. It was not an ordinary Imitation but something so good that it fooled......