11 MARCH 1949, page 15

Art

ROLAND, Browse and Delbanco's very pleasant new exhibition has been called Aspects of British Romanticism—with the charitable object, it may be, of helping the critic to pull......

In The Garden The National Gardens Guild (152,...

Edgware) is an organisation that all should encourage who wish well to gardens. It particularly aims at the increase of gardens in and about towns, factories and new housing......

Country Life

A PARTICULAR task--of obligation and pleasure—is recommended when cold weather comes in early spring. Nearly all birds—including, as is often forgotten, game birds—are in their......

Moonstruck Potatoes An Allusion The Other Day To A...

of the phenologists that barley ought to be sown when the blackthorn flowers has suggested a parallel passage from Spain. In thepeighbourhood of Barcelona it is an almost......

River Watch - Dogs It Is A Mistake To Tie The National

question of river pollution to the interests of fishermen, though coarse fishing is one of the most democratic (whatever the word may mean) of sports. Yet fishermen are the best......

London Sanctuaries How Has It Come About That The Number

of species of bird noticed in central London parks has suddenly increased by a very high percentage ? Is it because the Ministry of Works is paying more attention, and more......

Planetary

The pale moon hangs in its appointed place, Stereoscopic, lambent. Set among the stars The other planets dutifully trace Their orbits, Saturn, Venus, Mars. So coldly gleaming,......

Music

THE Halle Orchestra's concert at the Albert Hall on March 4th made the same break in the usual routine of orchestral concerts as the visit of a foreign orchestra. The only other......