English Vineyards Such Summers Must Have Been More Common In
the days of the Roman occupation. I hope to learn more about this shortly, for I have just had a letter from a man who lives near Canterbury. He says that he is shortly......
Country Life
IT is impossible to turn to country matters without showing oneself to be obsessed by the drought, especially if one lives, as I do, in the south-east of England. The dry spell......
In My Garden I Have Been Re-potting The Dried-off Cyclamen
plants, setting theml in nicely matured compost, loam. There is nothing more promising titan that squashed-bun tuber lying on top of the deep-brown of the den Soil ; a row of......
Propaganda For Health
SIR,—In order to make the National Health Service something more than a Disease Service the Ministry could make use of the propaganda method now used by all States for many......
Poets On The Air Stit,—lionel Hale Writes: "we Do Not
want them [poets] 'presented ' to Us ; we can reproduce their melodies for ourselves in our own heads." Unfortunately the majority of people cannot hear poetry in this way—at......
Response In Nature I Was Curious To Watch The Response,
both generally and iit•detail, of nature to that heavy shower on St. Swithin's morning. The-rain came down suddenly, and the valley was filled with great scarves of precipi-......
External Students
SIR,—The article which appeared on the Undergraduate Page in your issue of August 19th set forth admirably the difficulties encountered in their studies by external students at......
World-wide Distribution Of The Spectator By Air The...
our readers is drawn to the special air transport facilities offered to subscribers of the SPECTATOR overseas. These enable readers in many parts of the world to receive their......
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