2 FEBRUARY 1940, page 17

A Powerful Robin

A certain country vicarage in East Anglia has been invaded by mice which rejoice in the absence of any cat. Birds are regarded as too precious to permit the presence of so......

Art

Reopened Museum IN wandering through familiar passages al the Victoria and Albert Museum one soon comes upon boarded-up doors, for most of the valuables have gone to the......

Many Mice

Those ingenious Oxford biologists who make special study of the ups and downs of animal life should note that mice are almost multitudinous this year in a great many places— in......

Country Life

Peace-Time The question is ,being considered whether the close season, which begins, oddly enough, on February znd, shall be post- poned. Partridges, the most perfect parents......

Resurrection, 1940

Now that the world has left its old profession —Dealer in drugs, and dregs, and mattress-maker- To let its sportive genius find expression Among the benches of the undertaker—......

Water Everywhere It Is Usually Held—and I Think...

in hard weather suffer from thirst as well as hunger. Certainly great numbers of them come to running streams in such seasons. This is strange, since snow is water in another......