1 OCTOBER 1927, page 18

A Tame Nightingale [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...

article on nightingales in your issue of September 10th tempts me to tell how we have heard the nightingale sing in August. We did not tame our nightingale, he tamed us. In mid-......

Poetry

The Silent Time SINGING of birds is over : the curlew only Out by the bog-pools bids his mate to beware. Long sweet whistles under the rushes lonely Set to listen the dew-wet......

A Cuckoo Problem . [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sm,—On July 28th last while repairing the tiled roof of this house, the builders, having stripped off the old tiles, found close to the eaves in the space between two rafters......

Second Storey Work Or Inspiration [to The Editor Of The

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —With reference to the "discovery " of the Memoirs of Monsieur d'Arlagnan, in a book box on one of the quays along the Seine, mentioned in B. D.'s article,......

Pig-farming In Scotland [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sm,—Why must we unfortunate farmers so constantly have " the wonderful efficiency of the Danes " thrust down our throats ? If the writer of the article on Scandinavia would do......

The True Grail Legend [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sin,—In your notice of the John Rylands Library Bulletin on September 10th, your reviewer writes :—" Dr. Harris makes an interesting philological point when he states that......