More Quail
Plenty of evidence has reached me of the increasing number of quail seen in England during 1947; and I must believe that a good part of the credit belongs to the International......
Relief In Germany
SIR, —Readers concerned for the relief of Germany's plight in the third winter after the war may like to know that at the moment Friends Relief Service is able to buy, mainly......
Over-production
Stn,—One must with Janus doubt the wisdom of your Ministry's advice to avoid surplus by "drawing less milk from the cow." In like circumstances with our much-goats in this......
Country Life
ARE there any windmills in regular use in England ? The question is suggested by the news that recent scientific research advocates the revival of wind-power for various uses.......
The Civil List
sta,—I want to call attention to a statement in At Westminster in your issue of January 30th. It infers that the allowance to the Duke and Duchess of -Edinburgh will fall on the......
Commons Oak The Accounts Of English Craftsmen, Some In Their
old age, at work on English oak for the ceilings of the new House of Commons, should help to'restore pride both in our crafts and in our timber. Some of the oak comes from......
Whose " Apology " ?
Sta,—One wonders what peculiar Denkmethode led Mr. Nicolson to ascribe the authorship of The Apology of Socrates to Aristotle. Was he "in a mood of ecstasy" when he did so? Or......
In The Garden
In a cubic yard of garden, so to say, were flowering freely -in the first week of February Cydonia Japonica and Viburnum Fragrans with a carpet of lungwort, mixed up with......
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