2 JULY 1942, page 14

Food Wastage

Sta,—I should like to thank Lord Northbrook for his interesting reply and I agree that his argument about fats and mice living together is probably right. He can, however, get......

Country Life

JusT before Midsummer Day a field in my neighbourhood was ploughed, after the carrying of a crop of oats—an astonishing example of earliness. Of course the oats, which were......

"optimism From Cairo" Sir, —mr. J. L. Hodson, In His Article

"Optimism from Cairo," refers to the censor who passed nothing unless it had already appeared in print, but there is one in Cairo who refuses to pass even what has appeared in......

Contra Janum

Sut,—Rarely do I disagree with anything that " Janus " writes: when I do, a silent dissent would normally be sufficient. But I cannot, as they say, let it go at that, when he......

Our Future Homes

SIR,—" There is no question that Mr. Osborn burkes the problem of what to do with the existing wens." This sentence in Miss Jacquetta Hawkes' review of three of my booklets is......

The Status Of The Clergy Sir,—t Hasten To Make A

slight but necessary correction to my letter in your issue of Friday, June z6th. I an authoritatively informed that the Guild of All Souls bought perhaps half a dozen advowsons......