... and to Gerard Hopkins a fine, ironic short story entitled Lace for the Bride. Verse, biography, wisecracks, cricket and nature notes are all represented the standard throughout is high. The bona fide Confession of a Murderer begins on the plaintive note ...

... to make an English summer and it can't be the mildness of our April and May that has brought the nightingales. One other nature note by an amateur. The first cockchafer sloshed in my bedroom coincided exactly with the first salmon- reeling note of the ...

... stead but there are, after all, still the officers scattered impartially through the length and breadth of the country. Nature Note There has been a fine spanking moon' some of these nights, when the clouds have chosen to give it breathing space. Lovely ...

... of a British man-of-war AN OPERATION IN PROGRESS ON A NAVAL VESSEL, where much of the equipment is of a rough-and-ready nature. Note the anaesthetist administering his drug straight out of the bottle, by hand A BATTLESHIP'S SICK BAY IN WARTIME, when most ...