Appreciated Decorations
In the village church, on Christmas Day, neither the carols nor the sermon were enabled wholly to divert the attention of the congre- gation from the activities and cheerful......
Sir,—sir William Marris May Shed Two-thirds Of His Qualms...
the terminology of the Royal Air Force. The " ugly hybrid ' aero- plane" has long been officuuly displaced, not indeed by his " air- plane," but by the somewhat tidier "......
Popular Poachers
Since so much has been written of late and is being written of that highly unpatriotic animal, the rabbit, it is pertinent to quote a particular example of reform. Over an area......
Life Peerages
SIR,—Writing in your last issue " Janus " comments on the recent appointment of four new Labour peers and concludes: " It is a pity the expedient of creating life-peers was not......
Country Life An Old Sussex Labourer, Noted Locally For His
gift of philosophy, imparted the other day to a visitor some " Evidences of Christianity " that quite escaped the learned Paley and others of his school. He corroborated his......
Some Production Deadlocks
SIR,—Mr. True's allusion. in your issue of December 26th, to the im- position of unnecessarily fine standards of accuracy reminds me of something said to me not long ago by a......
In The Garden
Some old-fashioned gardeners are opposed to the promiscuous compost heap on the ground that it contains weed seeds, and some amateurs have found this to be true; but it is true......
, G The War And Christmas "
Sift,—It would seem that the Spirit, rather than the Letter, guided the writer of this article (or the printer) in one instance: " to see freedom perish and the regime of the......
The Vocabulary Of War Sir,—the Valuable And Interesting...
military terms which Sir William Marris contributed to your issue of December 19th omitted two important words: dragoon and carbineer. Dragoon is from the Greek word for serpent......
Fancy Pheasants
SIR,—The Duke of Bedford has misread my paragraph on fancy pheasants. I implied—or meant to imply—that the Reeves, unlike the Amherst, is a high flier ; and I had in my mind's......
Winter Nests ?
In two neighbouring gardens both thrushes and sparrows have been seen carrying straws, as if intent on building, and we have all noticed how very full and constant have been the......
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