Charles The Martyr
Sta,—Your reviewer Canon Charles Smyth, writing of the book Saints and Their Emblems in English Churches, deprecates the omission from a list of saints of the name of Charles I.......
Early Birds
Nor are the first immigrants, such as chiff-chaffs and wheatear, early. What is remarkable is the number of blackcaps seen in the south-west. There is, I suppose, no doubt that......
Political Terminology
SIR,—The Sowerby by-election figures show a percentage of the total votes cast of 53 for the successful candidate, compared with 47 for the other. In 1945 the percentages were......
Prostitution And The Law
Snt,—It seems somew,hat surprising that in R. H. Cecil's article on sexual crimes no mention was made of prostitution, a branch of, the law very badly in need of reform. Every......
Country Life
THE arrival of spring—dated last Monday—means probably more to the cottage gardener than even to the poets. He is a diarist who does not put pen to paper. The phenomena of......
Butterfly Migrants
We are all familiar with ringing birds with the object of tracing their migrations. The practice has now been extended to butterflies and moths. Many hundreds were marked last......
A New Dominion ?
SIR,—Referring to the article on the Dominion of "Zambezia " (which I am glad to see graced with a question-mark), may one hope that in discussions of this project, which is......
Children's Books
Sim,—Your correspondent, H. T. Ives (in the Spectator of March 11th), errs in attributing " those delightful Brownies " to Kenyon Cox. It was Palmer Cox who chose them for his......
Old Limes
It was feared some years ago that the arrival of the elm disease would wipe out a very large number of our best trees ; but the plague was stayed, or stayed itself, as often......
In The Garden
Most small gardeners, I think, being one of them, are not particular enough about the varieties of their annuals. We sow a coreopsis or an agrostemma or, say, dimorphotheca......
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