Poles And The Black Market Sir,—a Few Weeks Ago A
number of newspapers reported about a visit to the Polish army in High Ash and stated that the English authorities found there a quantity of black-market articles and jewellery.......
Brave Birds How Little The Birds Mind Loud Noises! On
Scolt Head I was nearly deafened by the excruciating clamour of anti-aircraft fire from the near- by practice ground ; drums of the targets floated very near to the sanctuary.......
Blood Sports And The B.b.c.
SIR, —I do not think there is any very substantial point at issue between Mr. E. G. Barlow and myself. I am no fonder of blood sports than he is, but I do not believe that the......
Attention Has Been Focused On The County Of Lincoln By
the holding of a Royal Show, after a seven years' interval, in its capital. The Ministry of Agriculture has devoted a whole number of its journal to the county. As all good......
Sus,—it Comes As A Most Pleasant Surprise To Hear Mr.
Barlow say that the B.B.C. broadcasts hunting propaganda to such an extent that he wonders if it is affiliated to the British Field Sports Society or the Masters of Foxhounds......
German Writers
Sig,—Yesterday I read in The Spectator, No. 6003 (May 16th) an essay a Alan Ross, Books in Germany, and I read: "The second (class) con- sisted of mainly bad, but much......
Great Land-reclaimers
Not even the Holkham district of Norfolk or the country in the neigh- bourhood of Whittlesea in the shires of Cambridge and Huntingdon owe more to Coke of Norfolk and successive......
In My Garden A Rather Rough And Neglected Herbaceous Border
owes more than ever this year to that agreeable wild plant the yellow loosestrife, an exact translation of Lysimachia, not to be confused with Lythrum. Clumps are not only very......
May Or May On The Old Question, Raised Again The
other day, whether the flower or the month is meant in the popular doggerel. " Cast not a clout till May be out," evidence reaches me which seems nearly conclusive on the side......
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