10 JANUARY 1920, page 14

Ladybirds To The Rescue.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sic,—Your 'critique on Life and its Maintenance in the Spectator of August 30th; 1919, recalls a personal experience of extirpating a pest by......

Poetry.

TO A KINGFISHER. A SPLASH, a dart, a gleam of blue, A spray of jewels rainbow hue, Between the rushes gray and bare, Sweet little sapphire of the air, Thou &sheet 'gainst the......

Art.

THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. IT is a melancholy fact that the commonplace mind is to be found quite as often among painters as among other people. The word " artist " ought to......

A Hybrid ?

[To THE EDITOR or TELE SPECTATOR."] Peveril Turnbull's mystery bird (Ringlets) is pro- bably a blackbird pure and simple. About four years ago a pure white blackbird could be......

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The *pert Atin

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