15 MAY 1909, page 11

" The Lesser Affections!'

T HE Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, who bas worked so hard to get better treatment for animals in Italy, has written a fascinating book about "The Place of Animals in Human......

Heath Fires.

T HE present spring will be long remembered in the South of Englund for the number and the persistency of the fires which have blackened its heaths and commons. Only a few out......