A World Conference Of Christians Sir, —your Correspondent...
interest is not being shown in the suggestion for a world conference of Christians. As a matter of fact the rank and file of the Church of England appear to look upon the......
Urban Hawks The Other Day . An Observer Saw A Kestrel
hovering over Covent Garden —an event that should go down in the records. At the same time the hawk tribe in general, though not the kestrel in particular, is attracted to urban......
Sikh And Hindu
Sm,—In your issue of December 5th you say, on recent troubles in India, that "if the prime offenders were the Sikhs, then a reasonable under- standing between Muslims and Hindus......
Country Life
It is a general theory .throughout rural England that hard weather in November portends an open winter, and it is embalmed, as I am reminded, in a doggerel couplet of wide......
Protective Railings
A good many urban spaces have been improved to the general gaze by the removal of the iron railings during the war ; and most of them are not to be replaced. Nevertheless, they......
Raids By Mice
The acquisitive habits of some of the winterers has been quaintly emphasised in a country house in Oxfordshire. A store of broad beans kept for seed was raided by mice, which......
Indian Art
Sm,—Mr. Douglas Barrett is, of course, entitled to say that Gandhara sculpture makes no appeal to him. But "dreary echoes of the work of the Roman provincial mason," and 'dull......
In My Garden Acknowledged Experts In Gardening Are...
and more requests for advice in turning private gardens into semi-commercial ventures. One friend of mine, who drew considerable profit from his very lovely garden, made most of......
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