... of a great Christian A most memorable and helpful little book. BEDSIDE BOOK Many readers will enjoy, week by week, the Nature Notes of The Spectator, written by Sir William Beach Thomas, who was once famous war correspondent, and has now become equally ...

... the Starling. Mr. Isaac Mead, that energetic corrector in general of the press, has been breaking lance with writer of nature notes in a daiiy contemporary. The writer in question seems to have been saying a good word for the starling, the effect of which ...

... some reason there have been no pied wagtails this year, though the yellow wagtail has been here some time. Other little nature notes are that some years ago there was a golden oriel tor a week or so, and a cinnamon coloured thrush for some months. Nearly ...

... day when she oan back there —i.e when Hitler gets out. It'is very cold the winter, with snow. I love the snow, she said. NATURE NOTES. BRAINTREE lady reader asks me to settle this argument: Do sheep and rabbits require drinking water? Would they take it ...

... interesting article advocating the preservation of the Lower Lee Valley as a great open space, appears in the current issue of Nature Notes from the pen Mr. Ceabee. Here, he writes, is a large open space, the effect of which is to supply a volume of fresh ...

... that a large proportion the parents are not in a position, however willing they may be, to obtain the remedies necessary. Nature Notes. W.S.G. writes; wood at any time of the year is a delightful place, but never more than now. A little while since it ...

... thrush, coming up, had chased the robber with such blind rage that both birds crashed into obstacle which caused their doom. Nature Notes. Midsummer time and midsummer weather, consummations not always conjoint in oar fickle climate, bring with them the crowning ...

... Mr. Coke, Lord Somerville, the Rt. Hon. John Fo&ier, the Earl of Wmchelsea, Sir Wm. Rowley, Lord and Lord St. Vincent. Nature Notes. When May joins June we have the pleasantest times the year in tho countryside. Perhaps no time quite delightful if days ...

... reading the local news, also Essex Man's Diary. In your issue of August 31st I notice that Essex Man has included some nature notes among his jottings. These 1 read with great interest. write, however, to correct him when he states that he has seen a ...

... thrifty for three quarters of century, has been to spread hope, and even to encourage the ekeing out very limited means. Nature Notes. The days are lengthening out far more than perhaps realise. From the shortest day to the present time we have passed through ...

... weather yet to make anyone feel anxious, but in the South if rain doesn't come soon it will be very bad for the dairies. Nature Notes. The rain has laid the noisome pestilence of the dust raised the motor car, and growth the countryside is clean and fresh ...

... human beings. Men were never made for such purposes, I tm sure, and howling hooliganism ought to pat down with firm hand. Nature Notes. Succeeding the white sheets of daisies, buttercups strew the fields with cloth of fold. In a meadow you can often find ...