31 DECEMBER 1943, page 14

Catholics And The Education Bill

SIR,—It is not generally understood that the apparently obstinate attitude of Catholics towards the Education Bill springs from something more fundamental than any Government......

Cottagers' Light

Sut,—One of the greatest evils in the present supply of light and power occurs in rural districts when the two commodities, gas and electricity, are under the control of one......

Health And Soil Fertility

SIR,—The problems of physical and chemical changes in the soil are being solved with rapidity and certainty. Biological activities in the soil are another matter. The formation,......

The Lord's Day Observance Society

SIR,—The campaigns of the Lord's Day Observance Society are not intended as jokes, though " A Spectator's Notebook " suggests that they are. I am glad that you recognise the......

Country Life John Clare, The Northamptonshire Poet Who Had A

brief fame while Keats was writing and dying, said of the close winter months that " The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon ; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with......