3 OCTOBER 1941, page 14

Country Clergy The Church Is Often Accused Of Taking Little

more than a abstract interest in the education and general affairs of the country side; but does the countryside take any more interest in the affairs the Church? The more I......

In The Garden It Is Always Rather Puzzling That Pears

are ▪ not more grown in En land. In France there has always been a much finer appreciation their aristocratic virtues. There are few rites in gastronomy that s pass the......

Country Life

Summer's Lease The meadows are very green and where the flax was laid out in spring broad lines of lighter green have sprung up and are now blue lines of flower. On the hedges......

Country Education A Well-known Writer Has Been Saying...

education should be designed to fit the country child for a country life. This seems to be such a general idea among certain rural reformers that it may sound heresy to call it......

A Solution For India ?

Sm,—Mr. Griffin forgets that in 1935 we gave India provincial autonomy. In 1937, Congress obtained majorities in seven provinces out of the eleven, but they were bare......

The Sampling Method

SIR,—In reply to Mr. Silvey's letter in your issue of September 26th, I should like to state that I was not misled by Mr. Rowntree's own figures, but by those of " Janus." I......

Puzzled Workers

Sik—I was relieved to see the letter from " A Factory Hand in The Spectator of September 19th, as I have heard the same story from several sources and was afraid that there must......

Clothes-rations

Sts,—As the winter of my discontent has not yet been made glorious summer by the sun of York, or any other sun, I should like to beg the hospitality of your columns for the......