12 JUNE 1953, page 18

Mistaking A Murderer

Stit,—In your issue of June 5th, Mr. Dingle Foot, reviewing " The Law of Libel and Slander " by Oswald S. Hickson and P. F. Carter, writes: " As long as the English tongue is......

Lawn Care

My grass—conscience prevents my calling'it lawn—is in a desperate state through neglect of dandelions,, daisies and moss. . Since lawn sand, which would deal with the weeds,......

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Country Life

"SNAIL, snail, put out your horns and I'll give you bread and butter the morn," I was taught to recite to the " black snail " when I encountered it on the road as a......

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Myths And Matriarchs

Nu Graves wrote in The White Goddess: "I could not . . . have a nswered a single question in the Hanes Taliesin puzzle . . . if I had not known most of the answers beforehand by......

Holmes, Sweet Holmes

SIR, —The skit on William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes was Sheerluck Jones and not Picklock Holes. • I have the programme in front of me —Terry's Theatre, October, 1901.—Yours......

Theodore Cooke Taylor

SIR,—I have been commissioned to write the life of the late Mr. Theodore Cooke Taylor who died in October last at the age of 102. He was one of the pioneers of profit-sharing in......