Country Life
A PRIZE was offered some while ago for the best account from members of the Women's Institutes of " What My Village Was." The theme proved congenial and productive. A good many......
Devon Birds I Have Always Regarded Norfolk (where...
a naturalist of sorts) as the key county for birds, but I doubt whether any year's record excels that of Devon's in 1945. The report (to be had from the Rev F. C. Butters,......
A Fortress Of Democracy
SIR, —Your contributor Janus, by his reference to Hatfield as " that embattled fortress of democracy " intends no doubt to be sarcastic, witty, pungent or sneering (or all of......
Cornish Villages
SIR,—In The Spectator of September 6th Janus remarks on the absence of picturesque villages in Cornwall. Perhaps this is explained by the following extract from Essays in......
In My Garden If My Correspondence •is Any Test, The
desire among cotunry-house gardeners to sell their produce (both for the sake of not wasting it and for profit) grows continually. It is of course almost impossible to sell......
The Boy's World ?
SIR, —Mr. Connell's letter is so disarming, in contrast to the passion usually aroused by praise of Vigo's work, that I have some hope for hint as" a potential convert when he......
Liquid Assets
SIR,—Janus advises us to keep banking accounts in order to foil prospec- tive depredators. Is he right? More and more frequently, in the tube, I see extravagantly dressed and......
English Quail This Report Gives• Some Slight Further...
the return of the quail. .I learn from other sources that quail have been seen in about a dozen English shires, including the unlikely shire of Hertford, and news from the......
Prayers And The Weather
SIR, -It is now (1946) demonstrable that what we call " the weather," meaning thereby the amount of sun heat and water condensation and precipitation experienced in a given......
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