Country Life
JUNE came in like September. The lawn was well-patched with spider- webs, bedewed with gems, and the sun slowly conquered the dampness. Yet it is an early June. One rose in the......
Restoring Beauty • The Utter Neglect Of Once-lovely...
by military occupation, has been distressing, especially in my experience in the lovely North Devon village of Woolacombe and other seaside places to the south of it. I hear......
In My Garden
Parts of a plant sent me for identification proved to belong to the bush acer negundo, which has a seed like a maple but the leaf of an elder. It is worth growing. If not so......
India And The Empire
Sig,—Field-Marshal Smuts, in his recent broadcast on Imperial unity, forgot to mention that in his own country no Indian can take up mining, engineering or building. He cannot......
What A Place To Loot !
Sm,—Would Mr. Harold Nicolson kindly tell us where we can find the story which he quotes, of how Marshal Blucher in 1854, surveying London from the top of the Monument, "......
The Art Of Reviewing
SIR, —In more than half a column of The Spectator (May 24th) Kate O'Brien calls Auto-da-Fe " appalling," " magnificent," " unbearable," "mad," "practically indescribable." She......
A Queer Duel
In a rough, well-treed garden within a village that now is almost a town a very strange struggle has been' watched and listened to day after day. It has been so noisy that......
" Hollywood Vandalism "
Sig,—In your issue of May 31st Mr. John Prickett asks whether there exists a library to preserve all films worth keeping. This is precisely the function of the National Film......
Newspaper Reporting
Sta,—In associating myself with Professor •Pigou's protest against news- paper intrusions on private grief, I suggested that such protests would recur as long as the public made......
A Thistle Mystery
An old country and botanists' puzzle has been more or less solved by recent research. The creeping thistle continually appears in quantity on newly disturbed ground. For......
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