The Small Village
SIR,—Perhaps I may be allowed, as the one who started the correspon- dence in The Times and elsewhere on the plight of Letcombe Bassett, to make a brief comment on Mr. Victor......
A Land Of Hawks How Different The Population Of Birds
in different parts of England! During a whole fortnight spent in the Cumberland Lakes some of us saw exactly four sorts of birds, after leaving the gulls and jackdaws of the......
Doves And Vines In A Most Readable History Of Agriculture
(Bell and Sons. 10s. 6d.), Mr. Franklin, the learned author, gives an account of the thirteenth- century manor " with its dovecotes, fish-pond and vineyards." How is it that all......
A Vanished Prey A Surprising Disappearance In Some...
the north-west is of the rabbits. In several farms known to me they were numerous enough to be a nuisance three years ago. Today, though no measures have been taken against......
Intolerable ,4 If " ?
SIR,—The answer to your correspondents, J. H. C. Brooking and R. E. Martin, is quite obvious. There were two Kiplings: one of them was the great master of the short stories, of......
In The Garden Flourishing In A Beautiful Spring Garden Are
two varieties that might have a wider vogue: a white daphne and a white Stylosa iris. Neither to my taste is a rival to the purple-flowering sorts ; but they are a pleasant......
Sta,—may I Question Whether The Village Colleges Of...
the effect with which Mr. Bonham-Carter credits them in his article, The Small Village? This village, with a permanent population of slightly over 300, is within two miles of a......
Where Were The Masai ?
Sta,—Your Cambridge correspondent of February 25th seems to question Sir Philip Mitchell's sense of history and asks: " Where were the Masai when land rights were being......
Country Life
THERE is seldom much poetry in 'the doggerel of the weather prophets (though old Tusser gives evidence of an occasional spark), but a couplet just introduced to me for the first......
Spectator
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