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The photographs are probably the first thing most readers look for when a new "Countryman" is opened—and this month they are fully u ful er also contains a very useful io standard. This current
thing—a map of England with the hard and soft water districts marked on it—dnd it is curious how symmetrical the hard water district looks. "Egg g and the Defiance of ihe Law," by Eric Parker, is a severe article calling attention to ihe ease with which the law is evaded in the taking of the eggs of fare birds, and ending by hoping for another Government measure. "The Two Buffaloes," by Llewelyn Powys, an experience in Kenya, is sandwiched between "The Rector and His Charge," built up from marginal notes in a church register of 120 years ago, and "The District Nurse's Story." And in reading "The Countryman" one knows that nothing is fiction.
Stony Ground article "Why Not a Nation-
of Onslow laments the scarcity of the Highlands" the Earl wild eats among other animals: cats only exist now in the The lack of salads in English hotels despite plenty in the shops is noted in "Highways and Hotels" R. M. Lockley's "In Search of an Island deals in this twelfth instalment with Out Skerries one of a group of three islets nearer to' Norway than to England:
;.-Out Skerries is no more than a grini heap of stones where the women toll on the land to make sure of a crumb of the loaf in case the men fall to secure bread at sea. The re: fishing is done in small motor boa! but ling and -haddock are today as untrustworthy as the market for.fhém, and most Out Skerries. men become able seamen. Mrs. Williamson's husband was awa: away for ten years; but now expected home—perhaps for gocd. for he had a damaged arm...
Dr. H. J. Denham writes on allows in the Sun" and. gives useful hints on the, planting and care of the varióus types—moreover the familiar nomics, Japan, China, Manchoukuo and the Yangtze can be caught on a first glance through the pages, The fourteenth instalment of the Diary of a Fruit Farmer contains short comments on a visit to Germany to attend the Horticultural Conference, such as
with h. and c. cost but 1s. 9d. a hea Aug. 19. Our excellent bedrooms, at St. Goar on the Rhine.
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