4 OCTOBER 1940, page 11

Ex Africa

My postbag is continually illustrating the old dictum that out of Africa is always coming something new and strange. Here is the latest: a small rough-skinned lizard of the......

Gossamer Days

Many of us do not remember to have seen quite such complete gossamer days as befell last week. As you walked, soft, almost invisible, wisps of silk stroked your face. You......

Late Daisies

A very real addition to the beauty of the garden at this date is that more or less recent discovery, the dwarf Michaelmas Daisy. It has been advantaged by a number of new......

Country Life

Harvest Festivals The Harvest Festivals, celebrated most aesthetically in country c hurches, have taken on some likeness to the festivals of an ear lier century, when the folk......

The Cinema

The Mortal Storm." At The Empire. HERE is the purely sentimental approach to Nazism; the impact of Hitler's regime is presented in terms of the individuals of a prosperous and......