Dovzhenko's Films
SIR, —In reviewing Experiment in the Film, Mr. Cyril Ray refers to " Dovzhenko's juxtaposition of newsreel shots." I have not seen Dovzhenko's most recent work, but his earlier......
Humane Errors It Is Said, In An Excellent Little Pamphlet
prodticed by U.F.A.W. (The Universities' Federation for Animal Welfare), that the recent Anti-Blood Sports Bill increased the membership of the British Field Sports Society from......
Migrant Flowers The Very Dry Weather That Has Hurried On
the harvest and ripened the barleys at unanticipated speed has had -some rather surprising effects on wild flowers. On one common, for example, it has often been asked why the......
Pougher Of Leicester
Slit,—How should we pronounce his name ? I say Puffer.—Yours faith-......
Women Humorists
SIR, —In a recent notice on the Humorous Art Exhibition there was a complete absence of any feminine name. The cartoonist brand of art seems to have no attraction for women......
In The Garden None, Perhaps, Of The Newer Roses Is
promised a larger circulation than " The Doctor." It is the Peasgood Non-such of roses, of enormous sue and stout petals, beautifully scented, and it is a good doer. Another and......
High - Fliers .1 Some Have Wondered What The Swifts Arc Up
to, cutting their wild patterns of flight at an inordinate height ; and they have stayed with us later than usual in the enjoyment of this pastime. The presumption is that they......
Rifles At Bisley
SIR, —The Lee Metford .303 magazine rifle replaced the Martini-Henry at Bisley some years before 1897. We were armed with it at Sandhurst in 1894. I used its successor, the long......
Country Life
HERE and'tfiere is to be seen a field which was cut, cleared and ploughed before the first day of August. There do exist records of harvests which began in June—I have the......
Translating English Sta,—the Reference By Strix To The...
a sub-editor in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune to deal with cricket reports reminds me of an occasion, between the wars, when this same gentleman, or one of his......
The Apprentices' Salmon
Slll,—In his review of Thi Food of the People, in the Spectator of July 29th, Sir jack Drummond refers to the regulations which are sup- posed to have prevented craftsmen from......
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