3 AUGUST 1945, page 18

Country Life

AN ingenious suggestion for one of the many forms of war memorial th are being meditated has been put forward—and illustrated-:--on beh3 of the Men of the Trees, now an......

Bombed Churches As War Memorials. With A Foreword By The

De of St. Paul's. (The Architectural Press. 3s. 6d.), THIS delightful small book ought to find a large public and widely read both for the sake of its informative text,......

This Official Account Of Submarine Operations During The...

the latest and one of the best of the series of Admiralty books about the war at sea. There is a great deal to tell, for the Submarine Service has been hard at it since the......

Herb Or Poison ?

Not long since I found growing in a much war-damaged line of dun in North Devon a number of plants of henbane, a species I had nev seen there before. This poisonous growth,......

In My Garden While Suggesting Recently That The Best Of

all the Aubrietias, or r cresses, was A. Gurgedyke,- I wondered where it got its name. One the family of its maker writes to tell me. It was raised by a lad in a Reigate .garden......

A Blue Harvest The Harvest Is Good, But Harvesting Slow.

In my neighbourhood Ian girls were engaged as an advanced guard to the cutters-and-binder and found the work hard. Their instructions were to lift the heavy oa flattened by the......

The Cornhill, July, 1945. (john Murray. 2s. 6d.)

THE July number of The Cornhill keeps up the high standard of this review and is distinguished by an article, " Art and Democracy," by Sir Kenneth Clark, which is an outstanding......