2 NOVEMBER 1951, page 18

"small Talk At Wreyland"

slit,—I am deli g hted' to - assure Janus and those who have read his para- g raph on Cecil Torr's Small Talk at Wreyland that the second and third volumes at least are still......

Sign Of The Times

SIR,—I remember the shock that I receiv e d when I saw in The Times a year or two a g o, and not in k the correspondence columns, the same g rammatical mistake as That contained......

Charles Dickens

SIR, —Mr. Cohen's review of my book on Charles Dickens needs some .correction. I wrote nothin g to su gg pst that " madmen make the best authors " or that " genius is merely a......

Sta R -elizabeth Hanbury Was Born In 1793 (according To...

and died in 1901, a g ed 108 years, 4 months, and 3 weeks. She thus also spanned three centuries and beat Mr. Carter's g reat- g reat- g rand- father by a short head. Miss......

What Do Animals Feel ?

Outside Bredwardine on the Wye, where Francis Kilvert, that passionate oountry-lover, lies buried, I once saw a car run over a youn g weasel, while the fa m ily headed by the......

Igi The Garden - From 7 To 12 De G Rees 'of

frost in three successive ni g hts have been catastrophic. The g arden looks dismantled room with all the best pieces removed and only litter left behind:-- " What's past and......

• Country Life I Learn From Mr. Ivor Morris, A

member of the Centr a l Regional Committee of the Britisfi Wool Marketin g Board and a discriminatin g bookseller' of Chipping Campden, that this jewel in the Cotswold crown, a......

Cannibalistic Grey Squirrels ?

On the wireless the other day a question was considered aato wh a t was the implication of a grey Squirrel standin g over its mate run over by a car and chittering apparently......

Sweet William

may be observed, with reference' to the alle g ed association of Sweet William with the Duke of Cumberland, that the name in Scotland of the common ra g wort, "Stinkin g......