14 MARCH 1947, page 18

Rare Guests Unusual Birds Have Conae To Our Gardens And

the bird-tables- that the kind Ministry of Agriculture has urged us to furnish with such foods as are permitted by the Ministry of Food. There are authentic instances of the......

A Reviving Craft I Dared To Report Recently That Architects

were beginning to speak favourably of thatch, and was taken to task for preferring sentiment TO comfort ; but the point was that the architects held the thatch to be both warm......

The Cruellest Trap On The Subject Of The Ministry,...

fear, not without reason, that one clause in the new Act gives permanent and official licence for the use of the steel-toothed trap in the open. This trap is a devilish......

Postage On This Issue : Inland, Lid.; Overseas, Id. -

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International Student Service

Sut,—I . should be grateful for an opportunity, through your columns, of expressing to Dr. Malcolm Sargent the gratitude of the British Committee of International Student......

Post Office Profits

SIR, — If the Assistant P.M.G. is correctly reported as admitting in Par- liament recently a surplus in 1945-46 of,.no less than £36,000,000, what justification is there for......

Among A Multitude Of Accounts And Personal Experiences Of...

birds in dines of frost the most original and perhaps successful conies • from Cornwall. Expeditions were made for the hunting of snails in . the crevices of stone walls, and......

In My Garden What A Protection Snow May Be Has

been palpably shown in this long frost, though some bush flowers, such as the naked flowered jasmin, have been scotched. Ground flowers, including the bumble lungwort, have kept......

Diaries And Typewriters

Sui,—" All," says Mr. Nicolson in his delightful article on keeping a diary, "that is required is a typewriter." In the same manner Mrs. Becton used to write, "Take a dozen......

"middle Eastern Drift"

Sra,—It has been pointed otit to me that my reference to the Governor- General of the Sudan in the article in your issue of January 10th on Middle Eastern Drift reflects......

Russian Parliament

Sta,—I am sorry that an unfortunate fault in transmission has re- sulted in a misprint at the bottom of page 233 of you March 7 issue. General Bulganin, while "Little known," is......