In . My Garden These Are Unpardonable Comments, Much Too...
especially at a time of year when work in the garden should be as nearly a whole-time affair as the breadwinner can contrive. This is the month for thinking ahead, studying the......
Country Life
LINGERING, the other day, on the National Trust land on the Chiltern Hills where Cymbeline once camped, I looked north across the wide plain of Aylesbury, with the sun going......
Surtax Manners
SIR.—The experience of Strix with the Accountant General (Cashier), who sent back a renewed demand note in place of a receipt for surtax paid, is one which is probably familiar......
Bonne Nuit
Sra,—I was glad to have confirmed the authorship of the poem quoted in your Competition No. 33 as being that of Alfred de Musset. I find in a French grammar book, not only the......
Looking Toward The Sun Sun-dazzled, Perhaps, By That...
a moment of Wordsworthian intimacy with the personality immanent in nature, I drove across country to Radlett, in Hertfordshire. The journey was enriched by speculation about......
. Sir,—reading Mr. Atkins's Interesting Article On The...
I am reminded that my mother, who was a niece of R. H. Hutton, used to tell me that the more improbable animal stories sent to the Spectator in his day were attributed to......
Corrigendum
SIR,—In the difficulties of production of the Spectator for September 8th I did not see a proof of my notice of new novels, and a variant crept in for which I must apologise to......
46 Country Life "
Silt.—As Mr. Atkins rightly points out in his charming article, school- mastering was not the proper occupation for Sir Wiliam Beach Thomas. But it was as a master at Bradfield......
Steel And The Referendum
SIR,—In his speech on the steel issue Mr. H. Morrison said that he " guessed :' that 2,600,000 Liberal or Radical voters would have approved the nationalisation of steel. This......
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