Country Life I Spent An Afternoon This July In Going
over the first of the rural colleges (new style) situated within the aura of Cambridge. A party of us went there from a neighbouring county for the sake of imitation: such......
" Fraternisation "
Stit,—I write to challenge the implication in "Serving Officer's" letter that to frequent brothels is to " be human." Surely " human " nature, as contrasted with " animal "......
In My Garden The Strange Heresy, Or Creed, That The
gardener should dispense with the spade or fork is again coming to the fore ; and when it is preached by so technical, sane and suggestive a paper as the Field it cannot be......
A Vanishing Bird Not Long Since, A Tired — Land-rail Or...
descended into St. James's Park before proceeding on its migration. The event was the more sur- prising as the bird grows sadly tare. It is one of the victims of the new farming......
Honied Sources The Bees Have Been Providing A Good Quantum
of honey. The sun which makes them desirous of gathering pollen and nectar, and the damp which makes the sweetness in flowers available, have been vouchsafed in reasonable......
Lord Samuel's Epigram
SIR,—In The Spectator of July 20th Lord Samuel's epigrammatic phrase on Campbell-Bannerman is quoted with appreciation: "His premiership was common-sense enthroned." I wonder......
Red Clydeside ?
SIR,—There is a general impression in England that Glasgow is a city of the extreme left-wing in politics, and the term "Red Clydeside" is fre- quently applied to it. An......
Primary Schools
SIR,—As a recently retired Head of a Grammar School Preparatory Department, may I reply to Miss Wilmshurst's very practical letter with the records of some twenty-five years'......
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