In My Garden In The Little Spring Bouquet By My
elbow are included, beside primrose and snowdrop, two heaths, lungwort and laurustinus, which perhaps has the longest flowering season of any plant or bush. The irises, still in......
Tories And Controls"
Sta,—If Mr. Hugh Molson would study carefully and improve the pattern just discernible in the new Regional Organisation for Industry now being welcomed by employers, Trade......
Vulpine Reaction A Queer Incident Is Reported In Some Local
papers in Western England. A workman engaged in loading trusses of stacked hay into a wagon felt an acute pain at the back of his leg and a strong pull on his coat. Apparently a......
The Mounted Thrush Everyone Who Has Listened Fondly To The
songs of birds in the early part of the gear has noticed th crescendo of the song. It tends to increase in length and volume as the arc of the sun rises. Another point, of which......
An American Sect And Buttons
SIR, —Your issue of November 23 carried a genial and generous review of my recent book, Religion in America, signed by Stephen Neill. He says that at one point I have failed to......
Its Or Theirs"
SIR,—May I add a few words on the subject of collective nouns? "Nouns of multitude," to quote from A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, by H. W. Fowler, "are treated as......
Coun'try Life
OURS is a very hospitable island ; but it is not always well-treated by its guests. Of late years scares have been frequent about many different creatures and plants: the musk......
Use Or Beauty ?
The controversy over the heightening of Ennerdale Lake has become a focus of the argumentative clash between the aesthetics and utilitarians. It may be useful as bringing out......
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