Unconditional Surrender
SIR,—Last week's otherwise inspiring leading article contained a plea that Mr. Churchill's February declaration (about unconditional surren- der) " could with advantage be......
Country Life
ONE of the movements of the day, which should be beneficent, but may be lamentable, is the decentralisation of factories. A number of the have been and are being set up in the......
A Chateau In Normandy
SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's musings about Cherbourg and Normandy prompt me to ask. whether any Americans have noticed the Chateau of Tocqueville, the home of the author of La......
Birds And Barley It Is An Odd Thing That The
Ministry of Agricdlture (whose natur history is often lamentable) and other bodies preach destruction of t rook (which does a deal of good as well as some harm), but say nothin......
The Land And The People
SIR, —In your article " The Land and the People" in your issue of June 3oth you say, about the payment of compensation at the March, 1939, value, that the substantial justice of......
Sensible Money
SIR,—As finance is being considered and planning is in the air, now is the time for our country at last to make an effort to simplify our coinage. Such simplification would......
Two Nurseries A Queer, Suggestive Little Incident Has...
by an ardent bird-watcher. This is the tale. "Two chaffinches, a cock and a hen, flew towards me. The hen went straight to a thorn bush about 20 yards half-left of me. The cock,......
In My Garden
The habit of eating vegetables raw increases ; and it may bc said every salad is improved, certainly in health-giving qualities, by grit vegetables, both the leafy and the......
Cherbourg
Snt,—Concerning your paragraph at page 594 of The Spectator for June 3oth last, headed Cherbourg. In the Daily Express of to-day's date (i.e., July 3rd, 1944) on page 4, by the......
The Cuckoo's Interval
SIR,—The-answer of two expert musicians to Sir William Beach Thomas's question in your issue of June 23rd, as to whether the cuckoo sings a true musical interval, is to be found......
A Bradfield Naturalist A Letter Has Recently Appeared...
signatures (Quorum Pan Quarta Fui) to say that a memorial to Anthony Collett, a naturalist a genius, should be set up in the_shape of a natural history corner of tht library in......
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