20 NOVEMBER 1953, page 22

Sion To Withdraw Their Permission, Stating At The Same Time

that it was then too late for them to make the necessary arrangements should another site be found. This virtually banned the Rag. The Official Committee then cancelled all......

Jovial Farmers

To mark the occasion of my birthday we made a journey of about twenty miles to have dinner at a little inn well-known for its cater- ing and found the company at the adjoining......

Country Life

EVERYONE who has ever crossed a marsh or a bog knows the smell of marsh gas, the ferment of organic matter that comes from the ground at the pressure of the foot. I had always......

Myxomatosis

Rabbits that are infected by myxomatosis, I am told, suffer agony before the end and crawl about, bloated and suffocating, some- thing like rats when they have taken certain......

The Kenya Home Guard Sir,—the Attached Extract From A Letter

I have received from a friend who went out to Kenya some eighteen • months ago, and on whose word I have complete reliance, is self- explanatory and seems to be most revealing:......

Priests, Politics, And The Pope

SIR,—The Church of Rome has, in the course of nearly twenty centuries, numbered some very dubious characters amongst her bishops; but to Suppose, as Mr. Gedge supposes, that the......

The Ugly Duchess

am anxious to trace any books of a biographical nature dealing with Margaret of Tyrol, the reputed original of the Ugly Duchess in Lewis Carroll's Through the Look- ing Glass......

Herbaceous Beds An Improvement Can Be Made In The Garden

by lifting, splitting and replanting the old clumps that have crowded their roots and reduced the vitality of the herbaceous border. Be careful not to rearrange the beds without......

Social Lepers Or Sick Men ?

SIR,—Mr. J. M. Cohen, in dealing with one aspect of homosexuality, draws an all too vivid and recognisable picture of the type he has in mind. How well one knows these......