11 SEPTEMBER 1942, page 14

National Fire Service

SIR,—The comments of Mr. Shakespear Cooke are entirely misplaced. The youths he saw in uniform would be part-time members, as full- time members are called to H.M. Forces at the......

Country Life

Do we realise the populous state of our rivers? The other day on the Ouse (at a spot famous for battles by both Roman and Dane) a children's fishing competition was organised ;......

"the Price Of Survival"

SIR,—Mr. Hughes, quoting my plea for the grant of ros. each for the third and fourth children only, rejoins that a parent of three children whose income reaches a ras. a week is......

Richard Bentley: D. 1742 Sut,—that The Bicentenary Of...

death should have been —so far as I have observed—quite overlooked is surprising. He still remains, as Housman always held, our foremost scholar. His work was germinative, both......

Employment For The Army

Stn,—" Janus" says, quite rightly I believe, that men in the army are more concerned with the question of their employment after the war than with anything else. But I think he......