The Honddhu Valley Threat
Here between the arc of the Fwddog Ridge and the spur of Hatteral Hill, William de Laoy, whose family held 116 manors, came on a deer-hunt, and like St. Hubert remained to pray.......
“i Couldn't Care Less."
Sist,—'lire fate of the accidiosi in . Dante's Purgatorio, recalled by Mr Hogg, was unpleasant enough, but it was nothing to what happened to them in the Inferno (Canto VII) ; "......
Making Ends Meet
SIR.— Before the awful moralisings of Walter Taplin die away, may I gild the lily with a simple saw.—" Twopence saved is threepence earned." And for the fortunate ones who pay......
Protagonist
Sic —As one who has been a constant reader of the Spectator for some sixty years might I suggest to HE., who writes the notes headed At Westminster, that his use of the word "......
Sir,—" Minister's Wife " Should Indeed Count Her...
that one can survive the first year it is far better to be paid in arrears than in advance. The money comes in just as regularly but it is always owed to one instead of having......
Lucius Cary Of Great Tew
The seventeenth-century lord of Great Tew's badly restored manor was. Lucius Cary, second Viscount Falkland, of whom.J. R. Green wrote: — "a man learned and accomplished, the......
Country Life
PERIODICALLY I make a pilgrimage to Great Tew in the nondescript country between the Cherwell and Evenlode Valleys. My reason is threefold—the singularity of its richly secluded......
In The Garden
- We stilt have our gardens. The honeysuckle begins to bloom again ; the roses open their second season ; the white salvia and frilled white daisies take the place of the Regale......
Tied Cottages
Slit,—Coming at a time when it is so important to keep up agricultural production at home, the Government's decision to bring to an end the agricultural cottage certificate......
44 A Delicate Hint" Sin,—is There Really A Mr. Murphy Who
could possibly be so unapprecia- tive of Janus, and did he really write the letter ? One wonders. Janus, one suspects, leads a double life, and either Janus or the Editor, in a......
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