" The Doctor's Dilemma"
Ste,—I much enjoyed Mr. Basil Wright's perceptive review of this play. As far as I know, he is the first critic to point out that by allowing Colenso, the self-complacent......
Country Life
A SUGGESTIVE query has reached me from an observer of birds whose Observation Post is a bedroom in a southern sanatorium. She writes: "Do birds actually lose their voices during......
In The Garden A Number Of Gardeners Have Doubtless Received,
as I have, a little card bearing the notice " We regret we have now sold out of leek and have no suitable substitute "—that from the greatest of our seedsmen. What are we all,......
Weather-wise Birds
Sue,—I read with interest the account di The Spectator of Decem- ber 19th, 1941, of " A Weather-Wise Bird." Here on Vancouver Island the Indians call the Pileated Wood- pecker,......
Prairie England
The statisticians tell us that in 1939 Britain included a round two million fewer acres under cultivation than in 1914. The plight of these scorned acres revealed some very......
The Tragedy Of The 'struma'
Sm,—In the first post-Munich debate, Sir Sidney Herbert limped into the House and attacked the Government with fiery indignation. The burden of his speech was this: " What have......
Native Fuel
Among country words—of which a number were quoted last week —" elden " is particularly topical and it might well be extended from the local focus, for in this time of war......
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