29 MARCH 1940, page 21

Desirable Aliens Fears Of Any Naturalisation Experiment...

natural and proper. What grim results have ensued from the introduction of the rabbit, fox and blackberry, not to mention the sweet briar, into Australia! In England we have......

Have Been Vastly Amused By Mr. S. P. Golubrikoff's Attack

on Mr. Igor Vinogradoff in your columns. As a former student of Mr. Vinogradoff's, may I assure Mr. Golubrikoff that there is nothing " stereotyped " about his historical......

How Not To Write History Sir,—in Criticising My -review Of

Mr. Gerhardi's The Romanovs, Mr. S. P. Golubrikoff attacks me for my ante- cedents, as the son of that " very stereotyped " historian, the late Sir Paul Vinogradoff. I am......

The Mole Catcher Someone Should Do For The Mole What

Darwin did for the earth worm; and if some recent upheavals in my garden arc a true measure, one mole must excel a thousand worms in its capacity for raising soil. I doubt......

"the War And Easter" Sir,—may I Humbly Record My...

of the article in last week's Spectator, " The War and Easter "? I consider this one of the finest things you have ever published. It ought to be quoted and re-quoted. There is......

Country Life

Spring Then and Now How very little the form of the welcome to spring has changed in the last two thousand years or so! The fact occurred to me a week or more ago as I watched......

Sir,—as A Confirmed Reader Of The Spectator, May I Express

my unqualified admiration of the open-minded, essentially and commendably English attitude of this journal, which, after printing an ill-disguised but hardly plausible attack by......

A Charming Finch I Hear That The Canaries Enlarged In

the " mystery island " of Skokholm are flourishing and thought Likely to flourish. The little birds that had been t.sed for scientific experiment have got their liberty and are......

Mr. Disney's Staff

StR,—My review of Pinocchio in your columns last week contained a reference to Mr. Walt Disney's " talented staff of gangsters and animators." I hasten to assure Mr. Disney and......