Yet Some Natives, As Great Hunters And, Indeed,...
their ancestors, remain ; and it may be that the wireless will tend to increase their numbers. Such men' consciously glory in their district, in their island ; but they are......
Country Life
EMPTY SCOTLAND. It is a strange effect of civilization that many of the loveliest places in the land go backwards rather than forwards, relapse to a more primitive state, and......
You Might Expect That In Times Of Depression There Might
be a return to places where life is free and livelihood is earned by vigour of body and the skill of the hunter ; that there would be sonic return to the securing of such "......
A Responsive Nightingale.
This week was chosen by the B.B.C. to broadcast the song of a nightingale. The birds have been in wonderful song ; and in one place at any rate they have given further evidence......
The Mammals Add As Much To The Change As The
birds. The red deer, which abound and in the summer are singularly tame, repay close observation. The - faithfulness of the hind, her careful fondness for the young for as much......
Some Of The Islands (like Pevensey) Are "fathoms Deep In
history." Colonsay is an Ithaca and one wonders whether its relics have been worthily investigated ; but perhaps the greater wonders are prehistoric ; and in one regard legible......
On The Subject Of Vegetation There Is Evidence In Support
of a native fear that bracken is steadily and not very slowly invading a wide acreage. It is a fern of beauty ; but its presence is not good for man or beast. It destroys......
One Of The Passages In Literature That Has Long Delighted
me is an account by Thoreau (in Walden, a book too much neglected) of the loon. Why have our writers said so little of this large and curious tribe of bird ? Within a day or two......
Previous page
