Prickly Defence This Play Was Interrupted Recently By...
The dog was on ahead. I could heat him snuffling, nose forward through the grass, some fifty yards down the lane. The night was calm after wind, and my ears were accordingly......
Country Life
HABITUAL practices are as fruitful in the country as elsewhere. It is my custom to take a stroll down the steep lane between the cherry orchard and the apple orchard every night......
Examination Fees
Sra,—I am glad that in his reference to examination fees, in the Spectator of June 10th, Janus mentioned that these are payable at independent schools but that no charge is made......
Spectator
SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oseinary edition to any address in the World. . . 52 weeks Ll 10s. Od. 26 weeks 15s Od Air Mail to any Country in Europe. 26 weeks £1 3s. 9d. 52 weeks £2 Ts.......
In The Garden The Drought Of Last Winter Is Making
itself felt now that the hot weather has come. The cherries look harsh and crabbed, and I am wondering how sparse the crop will be, in spite of the miraculous way in which the......
The Nightingales An The Protests Died Away, Ise June...
returned, like the reflections to a pond that has been disturbed by a stone. Once more the night-jar, the crickets, the faint eolian lipping in the telephone wires—and the......
The 'french Communists
SIR, —May I intrude , on your space once more, just to vindicate myse from the charge that I think myself " entitled to give suggestions to tt French Government " ? In my......
Songs And Announcers
Sin,—I wish to protest against the growing custom of the B.B.C. of supplying a sort of precis translation of foreign songs. It is becoming more irritating every day. If the......
" The Crossness
Sm,—Your reviewer of ht. Charles Graves's book . on Ireland contradicts his statement that the troubled times in Southern Ireland were known as " The Crossness." Our Irish......
Enlarged Sheds
cannot follow Mr. Nicolson's argrment about our railway termini. He seems to disapprove of their resemblance to enlarged sheds. But he approves of the principle that industrial......
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