Absent Friends Of All Birds, Hardly Excepting Swallow And...
marten, none is fonder of a home or more faithful to one home than the stork, which unfortunately does not like the journey across the North Sea. I hid hoped this summer to see......
What Is A Don?
SIR,-1 remember hearing the late Dr. G. G. Coulton quote, as " tradi- tional," this definition of the word ; don ": " A word which in Spanish denotes a gentleman, and in English......
Travel In Malaya
SIR, —It is astonishing that a writer considered worthy of space in the Spectaror should so disregard facts as does Dorothy Crisp, in her article. Paradox in Malaya, when she......
. The Classical Tradition
Slit,—I am surprised that, in the Spectator of September 30th, your reviewer, Dr. H. W. Garrod, shares Mr. Gilbert Highet's bewilderment at Mr. Ezra Pound's:— PAPYRUS " Spring......
Country Life
WE have all said good-bye to September with regret. It is often one of the best of months—with its trees still green looking down on yellow harvests, with its conjunction of the......
In The Garden
Charles Lamb—si foret in Terris—would rejoice to find at his beloscd Mackerye, or Mackerel, End, by Harpenden, in Hertfordshire a nursery garden of exceptional quality, set up......
Rural Editors More And More Rural Papers Are Imitating The
Countryman in making country villages their headquarters. The closest imitator is perhaps the Country Journal, a very excellent quarterly, issued at Denmead, in Hamp- shire. Its......
Leaving Home A Kindly, If Satirical, American Critic Said...
England was a most happy place because whenever politics grew at all virulent someone brought in a Bill for the protection of birds ; and all was well. A new piece of evidence......
Participle And Noun
SIR,-- Janus should be more careful of his facts. I did not use the word " bugger " in my translation of Plautus. I used the phrase " buggering off," a common colloquialism for......
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