Too Many Fews "

Snt,—The reply of your reviewer to my letter calls for the courtesy of an answer. I must confess that I am not entirely convinced. "A few" surely means "a small number," and......

Near And Dear?

Snt,—A Spanish proverb is a very pungent variation of Mr. Harold Nicolson's quotation ; it is "God gives us our friends, but the devil gives us our relations." Perhaps this......

Conscripts In Germany

Sut,—Many will share Dr. Bardsley's anxiety about conscripts in Germany, but they will surely also recognise the basic fact that, if we are to maintain our garrisons abroad, we......

Mystery Of Migration Doubtless Most Of The Public Comment On

butterflies has had to do with the wholly unexplained mystery of migration, which, in regard to insects as opposed to birds, seems to be nature's method of destruction rather......

Queen Factories Discoverers Of Wasps' Nests Very Late In The

year are wont. to think it hardly worth while to destroy the brood ; but now is the time when the work is most effective. Just before the end the wasps—and they are peculiar in......

In My Garden •

One of the loveliest of all garden flowers is the Himalayan poppy that is called Meconopsis Bailii ; and there are favoured spots of dappled shade, especially, I think, in......

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Country Life

WHATEVER deficiencies may be alleged against this summer's grain harvest, now virtually completed, it has been the quickest and, I may say, one of the most amusing on record.......

Lessons Of Grimethorpe

Sta,—I fed bound to express my regret at the one-sided summary of the Grimethorpe strike in your last issue. If your readers have ever worked hours on end, bending or kneeling......