Country Life
IN the villages no worker is so popular or does more good than the village nurse. She is at hand—and great is juxtaposition—always ready to give her most efficient help to......
Neglected Food And Clothing The Marked Increase In The...
of moles, to which earlier reference was made, is doubtless on the negative side the result of the new contempt for their skins. One old farm-hand (as reported from Gloucester)......
Books For Germany
SIR,—Alan Ross in his article Books in Germany speaks of "the throiring open, of the gates to European influences" as being accomplished in Germany at present by the translation......
Stranglehold On Sport Sir,—is It Not High T,ime Some Public
protest were made against bureaucratic interference with sport? Recently, both football and dog- racing have, by Government order, been confined to Saturdays. The pony-racing......
A Musical Pheasant In A Lively Report Appearing In The
yearly record of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust, Major Anthony Buxton describes the obvious pleasure taken by one of his pheasants in the playing of the piano, and the question......
Jungle English
SIR,—Jungle English is by no means a monopoly of the English. It is also international. I take the following, at random and as a specimen of the whole, from the draft Charter of......
A Black Record
Are there no naturalists in the House of Commons, which was once famous for its debates on the protection of birds? A question concerning birds which apparently were conspicuous......
Baptism Of Fire
Snt,—I read with interest janos's remarks on the training of the French conscript. Now that National Service in this country is to be cut from eighteen to twelve months, may I......
In My Garden A Flowering Shrub, Sometimes Regarded As...
which seems to have rejoiced in the frost is Viburnum Rhitidophyllum. While the hardy V. Tinus has lost all its flowers and some of its younger shoots, this Viburnum is now a......
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