In The Garden Rather Late, The Roses Have Been Magnificent.
The singles and the species were never such a joy. The little single Hugonis and the cherry Moyseii surpassed themselves. The Penzance briars seemed richer in tone and the old......
Country Life
Village Shop All country dwellers, and I suppose most country visitors, know the village shop. Stocking everything from candles to calico, seeds to sardines, it was almost a......
A Question Of Coupons
SIR, —In the beginning of March I ordered two summer shirts before there was any suggestion of coupons for clothes. The delivery of material was held up at the factory and the......
Str,—if We Can Decide Whether A Prose Translation Of G
poem is poetry or not it may help us in this controversy. Having been taught early (and I suspect erroneously) that prose-poetry is a horror, I have always regarded such......
Slaughter On The Roads
Sta,—I should like to explain why I oppose Lord Fairfield's pro- posal, fair at first sight, to penalise pedestrians for not wearing white patches in the darkness. (Persuasion......
Honey And Mead Honey Is Off The Ration ; Nectar
is free for all, and many people may have been surprised that honeycombs are now more than double their normal price. They are apt to forget that the honey season is short, and......
Waterless Allotments
think it would be a good idea to bring to the notice of the councils the urgency for providing allotments with a source of water. We have rallied to the call of the Government......
Sir,—the Belief Of Mr. Winser That Hebrew Poetry Does Not
" scan " is correct, if that word is interpreted rigidly. But, though the Hebrew poets were not bound by a tonal, accentual, and syllabic arrangement such as characterises,......
Crazy Coot
"Crazy as a coot" is an expression heard more perhaps in America than here, but it has a firm basis in fact. On a hot June evening I was startled by a great commotion in the......
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