Which Epigone?

SIR, -1 wonder how many of us Mr. Harold Nicolson sent scrambling for our O.E.D.'s last week. Personally I am grateful for the enforced learning, but I do venture to hope that......

Bishop Henson's Autobiography Sir, —i Think Your Reviewer...

third volume has mis- understood the purport of the book. The Bishop, in a letter to me on December 14th, 1944, said: " I am trying to complete a supplemental volume which would......

Country Life

SIR WILLIAM BEACH THOMAS lamented in this column three weeks ago that he had never known so many nests deserted. I am by no means so accomplished an observer of birds' weddings......

A Wild Flower Census

Some years ago I found the library at Kew happy to accept and house a collection which my grandfather had made in his boyhood of the wild flowers about his home at Clapham. The......

Home Rule For Lincolnshire

Sru,—You have been good enough to afford many inches to the ventilation of Scotland's grievances and to her struggle for emancipation from the Westminster yoke. You will......

Mr. Partridge's Books

SIR.—NO one but a churl would fail to be delighted with such a review as Mr. Vulliamy's of my Underworld and Here, There and Everywhere. May I, however, comment on several minor......

On Sycamores

A table-lamp of sycamore, in the excellent display of handmade furniture lately staged by the Rural Industries Bureau at the Victoria and Albert Museum, revived in my mind the......

Our Oldest Neighbour

If ever that map of the wild flowers should come to be c drawn, I should owe its most distinguished entry to the kindness of a stranger. Years ago I received a small parcel, the......

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