Sweet William
SIR,—A nearly related species to Sweet William is the old-fashioned Agrostemma Coronaria. or " Bioody William." Li it not more likely that is the plant named after the Duke of......
Time—spans
SIR,—Your correspondents have given interesting particulars of longevity and of spans covering two generations. My letter, however, was con- cerned only with spans within a......
The University Vote
SIR, —The purely selfish and narrow attitude of most of those contributing an opinion on this nationally important subject is surprising. None seems to recognise that the......
Church And Chapel
Sta,—Mr. W. R. Cummings takes me to task for calling the Methodists' secession "still a recent calamity " and for declaring that " those who try to bring them back are doing......
Sir,—now That The Catholic Doctors Have Broken Silence In...
own and the Pope's defence, it becomes easier to attempt a summary of this mutter. Plain speaking is necessary. The Pope, well aware of the facts, was dealing primarily with......
Sir,—mr. R. C. B. Gardner Says That The Herefordshire...
does not appear to have been " translated." A transcription of it, how- ever, was published last year by the Pipe Roll Society. There is no mention of yew trees in the entry......
"after All " Sir,—in Sir Evelyn Wrench's Most Generous...
my book, After All, there has crept a typing or printing error which makes me say that " for five years 1 had not slept between blankets." What I wrote was sheets. To the......
Low—pommelled
SIR,—I would allow George Brinsmead almost all his epithets in Gaucho Elections, but not " high-pommelled " to his gaucho's saddle. The Argentine recado (in contrast to the......
Churchyard Yews
SIR,—It certainly does appear as though Mr. Gardner, suddenly looming up in the deep field, had caught me on the boundary. The question is whether even he did not have one foot......
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