Ballet Rambert
SIR,—I hope you will not consider it inappropriate if, in reference to your notice of the " Ballet Rambert " in last week's Spectator, I call your attention to the fact that for......
Country Life Many Of Us Hoped That The War Agricultural
Committees were an in. stitution that might solve many of our farming troubles. Their work includes the best features of the Russian system: the provision of machinery from a......
Publishing And Labour
Sut,—Mr. L. J. Cormack's invocation of Euclid does not meet the point I sought to make. Euclid, if 1 remember rightly, submitted no proposi- tion to the effect that the less......
A Frontier Town
SIR, — In the article "Normandy's Place in the War " in The Spectator of August 25th the statement that " Puigcerda, Cerbere and Le Perthus are held by the F.F.I." is made. In......
In My Garden The Really Astonishing Yield Of A Few
roots of self-sown potatoes almost inclines one to the heresies that potatoes should be planted in autumn and not earthed up. Indeed this second theory has had recently some......
The Poppy ,seed What A Mysterious Seed Is The Poppy's!
In one wheatfield where poppies had been virtually unknown, the plains grew up in such density that the corn had to be ploughed in and a spring crop sown. This Was in Berkshire.......
Guns And Vermin On The Subject Of Vermin, One Of
the only places known to me person- ally where rabbits (almost extinct in many districts) are a worse plague than they ever have been is over a wide space reserved for gunners......
Genius Of The Jungle
Sm,—Sir William Beach Thomas's recent paragraph on "a certain genius of the jungle " can refer, by copious internal evidence, only to James Corbett, of Kaladhungi, whom I have......
The Future Of The Film Industry
Sta,—There would appear to be almost a conspiracy of silence on the part of our post-war planners, educationists and social economists respect- ing the part the cinema is to......
What About Alberta ?
Stay—One of the most significant political events (practically unreported in our Press) in the British Empire for the past 20 years, is the re-election of the nine years old......
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