British Canaries
An unheard of number of canaries were exhibited recently at a cagei bird show in London, and their singing was described as so loud that( you could not hear yourself speak. Now......
Country Life
HERE is an amateur's winter bouquet of wild flowers picked during d casual walk in the neighbourhood of Richard Jefferies' birthplace: white' dead nettle, red campion,......
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The True Husbandry •
" The small hamlet forms the link between the farmer and his stock- men and the rest of the population." This wise sentence comes from a letter by Colonel Lort-Phillips (of......
Whom
SIR, —The "deplorable construction" of which Mr. Weekley complains did not, apparently, offend the authors of the Authorised Version. If Mr. Weekley turns to St. Mark viii 27,......
Bos Well On The Northern Circuit
Sta,—In my letter to you on the above subject I confess that by a slip of the pen I wrote quaere by mistake for quare. Poor, however, as are both my latinity and my penmanship,......
W. M. Praed
Silt,—Reviewing John Betjeman's Poems in your issue of December 10th, Mr. H. A. L. Craig states that Praed was a parson. But though the author of The Vicar had two intimate......
Freedom Of Dissociation
Sm,—The Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations Social Committee included among other matters the freedom to join trade unions. What a pity it did not include......
In The Garden
One of the first questions to ask when desiring a new shrub is whethe al it is quite hardy. As a brother of the famous shrub specialist, Mr. Vi caryl Gibbs, used to say, "I will......
Minority Governments
Six,—In commenting s on my article The Odds for 195o, Miss Lakeman suggests that the victory of Dr. Malan in South Africa shows that "our elections are a gamble, and a dangerous......
Enter The Topee
Six,—Mr. Morrison, lamenting the eclipse of the topee, may be relieved to hear of a perhaps unexpected part of the Empire (sorry, Common- wealth; in connection with topees, the......
A New Idea Is Being Put Forward By The Most
active British group of the International Committee for Bird Preservation, whose address is the British Museum, Cromwell Road, S.W.7. The present emphasis is ott duck, which are......
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