Cryptic S Ir,— " Work Or Want," Cripps He Say.

—Yours, &c., 2 5 Catherine Place, S.W. 1.......

Rural Speech— It Has Often Occurred To Me As A

surprisin g fact that more or less un- educated country folk habitually use words which the literary have be g un to avoid as affectatious. " Slay " is one of these. It is a......

Country Life

WATER has an extra attra c tion for birds—and indeed bees—when sprin g comes. I have been watchin g from a window a shallow concrete pond overhun g by a weepin g willow ; and,......

In My Garden No Flower In The G Arden Has More

patiently bided its time than the Al g erian iris. It is flowery in the third week of April, thou g h it usually flowers two months earlier, and is later even than the lovely......

Books For Austria

THE followin g is an extract from a letter received from Professor F. A. Hayek, chairman of the Austrian Book Committee: " We are tryin g to or g anise a collection of the more......

=and Humour

Examples of country humour also reached my ears on the Bud g et. In a g roup outside a small and very rural public house one man held up a ci g arette-li g hter and offered it......

Aspects Of Mining

Snt,—Your correspondent, Mr. B. Johnston, is sceptical about the claim that there has been an increase in mechanisation in the coal-mining industry. His doubts appear to be......

Criticism And Faith

SIR, —I a g ree with Canon Smyth that the correspondence columns of The Spectator (like the pulpit of the University Church) are not the appropriate place in which to discuss......

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Hungry April

April in some respects is a hun g ry as well as a thirsty month. The most common, and fatal, omission of amateur bee-keepers is the starva- tion of the swarms in early sprin g .......