3 MAY 1946, page 16

Country Life

IT is a melancholy spectacle when good land tumbles into the sea, especially when it takes with it—as some years ago near Cromer—a well- built church ; but East Anglians who see......

A Question Of Calories

SIR, — I have read with interest the correspondence in The Spectaro' about feeding in Germany, and the relative amount of calories per person in this country and in Germany. May......

Humane Poison

Humanitarians, scientists and naturalists have now, in fruitful co- operation, completed an experiment in the elimination of the rabbit, that enemy No. I to afforesters and,......

Str,—mr. Kenneth Stuart Believes That The Meagre Food...

the German people in our zone (about one-third of what we eat ourselves) will help to bring about repentance and re-education ; " the fact that their stomachs are not......

Rhodes Scholarships For Russians ?

SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's " Marginal Comment in your issue of April 26th prompts one to ask: (i) How it is proposed to allocate in future the Rhodes Scholarships which before......

Voluntary Rationing

SIR, — Canada is reported to Jiave adopted with enthusiasm a scheme for the voluntary surrender of rations, and depots are now being established all over the country for the......

In My Garden Most Gardening Critics Seem To ;lave...

in their advice to fill up gaps in the herbaceous border with annuals. One of them, writing on behalf of Women's Institutes, suggests the importance of knowing the height to......

Nightingale Haunts

Various urban and immigrant people write to me each year to ask where exactly they may hear the nightingale. The general rule doubtless is the further south-east the better.......

H.m.s.o.

SIR, — There is a very generally-felt want, because, with one exception, the invaluable publications of H.M. Stationery Office, embracing as they do almost every subject of......