Margins
A "blessed word," now enjoying a daily vogue, is \ marginal, as applied to land. It means, as a rule, though its uses vary, land that oscillates between the desert and the sown.......
Country Life
A GROUP of nut trees—mixed cobs and filberts—were overnight a gay curtain, of the jalousie type, of bright yellom% and bright yellow were the jasmine flowers looking through the......
University Teachers
SIR,—Mary Warnock is misinformed in her remarks on the salaries of university teachers. The systems of payments of lecturers at Oxford and Cambridge are at the present day very......
Ignorantia Juris
SIR,—)anus's dictum was, of course, correct, but in these days of legisla- tion by Statutory Orders, regulations and so on ; he might prefer to express it as Ignorantia furls......
Another Threatened Industry
SIR,-1 do not complain of the statement in last week's election notes that "the threatened industries—with-Atte single exception of Messrs. Tate and Lyle Ltd.—have covered up......
In The Garden
A member of a group of French farmers touring East Anglia (where they bought their seed wheats) said to me once: "Everything in England is for beauty," which was his pretty way......
Encouraging Poetry
Sut,—I have just seen Mr. Day Lewis's excellent article The Encourage- ment of Poetry in the Spectator of January 6th. Many of his suggestions seem very good, but the one that......
A Duck Alarm
Has anyone, sportstnan or other, found a dead duck ? The question is being urgently asked by those kind experts who are working for the international control of wild fowl. It......
3' The Spectator
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