Railway Electrification
SIR,—Onc of the traditional pleasures of railway travel has been the ability to look out of the window. As we rush, as we rush in the train, The trees and the houses go wheeling......
Country Life
THERE is one very spacious common, long since named No Man's Land, which was covered with gorse not so long ago. Foxes used it as a covert, and gipsies were fond of the place as......
Bishop Winnington-ingram
StR,—The reviewers hint belittling things of the intelligence of Dr. Wirmington-Ingram. But he did get a First in Mods and a Second in Greats, in 1879 and 1881, in the hey day......
Humane Errors
Sift,—Anything written by Sir William Beach Thomas should be read with due respect, but is he correct in stating that " the Ministry of Agriculture has no legal powers to make......
Pougher Of Leicester
SIR,—If your correspondents arc in any real doubt as to the pronunciation of the name Pougher, I can resolve it for them quite authoritatively, having often drunk Mr. Poughcr's......
Belittled Birds
One is not allowed in these times to say that birds are intelligent, at any rate in the human sense ; but they certainly do intelligent things. For example, on one golf links,......
World-wide Distribution Of The Spectator By Air
The attention of our readers is drawn to the special air transport facilities offered to subscribers of the SPECTATOR overseas. These enable readers in many parts of the world......
A Popular Tree
Encouraged by a not ungenerous increase of grants for afforestation, more owners are "dedicating" their woodlands to national service. The movement is goad ; but it is to be......
In The Garden There Is A "blessed Word," Symbiosis, Which
is being much used in garden literature—or, as Lewis Carroll suggested, litter-aturc. The argu- ment is that certain plants flourish much more abundantly if they have congenial......
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