Trader To Trader
SIR.—I'll be greatful if you can publish my name and address as a Nigeria trader who wishes to correspond with traders in you town. I will like to buy goods from them. I have......
Urban Exodus
A negative sign of spring very apparent to Londoners is the disappear- ance of the so-called black-headed gulls from the river and St. James's. When the brown on the head grows......
A Harsh Sentence
SIR,—Janus is to be congratulated on taking up the case of the harsh sentence passed on a Hull fisherman for voting twice in the last election ; an offence which seems to have......
In The Garden One Of The Flowers With Which Experiment
has been particularly busy is the Sweet William, for which most people have an old-fashioned affection. Its nature is to be a biennial or near-biennial. There is now a very......
A Doomed House
The history of 'a very fine Georgian country• house, succeeding an Elizabethan house, with a history of continuous ownership, has now been completed. A concise _record will......
M. Siegfried's Switzerland
SIR.—The evidence which suggested to me that M. Siegfried's. book on Switzerland had been translated first from French into American and iecondly into English was this: Some of......
Country Life
"MAD as a March hare" is more than a trite saying. Most countrymen have at one time or another watched the strange gambollings of hares in this month, often in considerable......
Riverside Trees A Chronicler Of The Lake County Has Been
emphasising the value of trees (not least in my experience of scrub oaks) in holding up the banks of the burns which in flood-time may have volume and force enough to break the......
St. John's Wood School Snt,—i Am Trying To Piece Together
a brief history of the old St. John's Wood School in which I and my neighbours are staging our modest offering (of Purcell and Shakespeare) to the Festival of Britain, 1951. We......
.a Fox's Diet
SIR,. — In the Spectator of December 2nd, 1949, Sir W. Beach Thomas asks: "Is it possible for a fox to catch an unwounded rook?" It is thirty:. odd years since I. was in England......
Sir Harry Lauder
Sta,—Apropos the paragraph by Janus on Sir Harry Lauder being frugal rather than mean, I would mention that when Harry from time to time visited Sheffield on tour he made a......
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