In My Garden Someone Said : " I Should Like
to live by a river if only for the sake of having a willow garden." Now my garden, such as it is, is on a singu- larly dry plateau, but willows flourish abundantly (as they do......
What Are Vermin ?
A certain controversy has risen as to whether foxes, those still sacrosanct animals in the Midlands, ought to be called vermin. That priceless book, the Concise Oxford......
Hydroponics It Seems That The Curious Art Named...
being encouraged by the results of the Pacific war! A good many English amateurs have been experimenting with it, and one at any rate of our universities- Reading—but the real......
Bomber Offensive "
SIR, —Mr. J. M. Spaight, who wrote such an excellent book on the Battle of Britain, published in May, 1941, hardly does justice in his review published in your issue of January......
Bombers Over Japan
Slit,—Major E. W. Sheppard, in his article Bombers Over Japan (10111 47) is, I think, wrong in one detail. Writing of " air operations against Japan's home territory " he says,......
Country Life
Some years ago, when the ravages of the death-watch beetle were discovered in Westminster Hall, repairs were begun with oak beams cut at Whiligh. At that time Sir George......
A Link With Sweden
sm,—As I wish to establish contact with an English teacher or university man inclined to correspond with a Swedish teacher, and as I have in my hand a copy of The Spectator, I......
The Lascaux Cave
Sul,—I am grateful to Mr. Elkin for writing, and you for publishing, 3 letter that corrects, to my advantage, a venial oversight in Mr. Middleton's article. It is true that the......
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