Spivs Or Spinners Sta,—to A Man, Like Myself, Who Lives
in the country, a visit to London is an amazing experience. Here we are faced with the greatest economic crisis in our history, with our very existence in the balance—and yet I......
Country Life
WE have enjoyed—or at least experienced—this year a late and exceptional frost, two floods and three droughts. They have led to one of the most brilliantly coloured of. autumns.......
America Looks At The Five-day Week
Sta,—Politics are not my metier, but I suppose that in the field of inter- national relations we can all play a small part. One of my regular correspondents is a distinguished......
Episcopacy And The Church
Sta,—As one who reads The Spectator, I really must take excep- tion to the statement of Mr. Borthwick on episcopacy. It is just matter of truth and fact. Compare the two......
Experts In Grass Among War-destroyed Activities That Have...
is the work of the Board of Green-Keeping Research at Bingley in Yorkshire. The revived Journal is full of interest. Charles Darwin would have appreciated the discourse on......
In My Garden A Shrub Well-worth Growing, If Only For
the eccentric colouring of the leaves, is the Stranvaesia ; and the branches will hold their leaves and keep their colour if dipped in glycerine after cutting. Among the......
Thirsty Birds
The dryness has had a surprising influence on the local migrations of birds. Many people in many parts of the country have noted the almost unprecedented absence of starlings ;......
Where Do Colds Come From?
Sta,—I usually read Janus's pontifications on politics and personalities with admiration and interest, but I fear he is unwise to stray into the realms of epidemiology. Sutor ne......
Record Of The Hives
How sharply neighbouring places in England differ! In my neighbour- hood the exceptional absence of wasps has been a general comment. From the next shire I get lamentations for......
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