12 JANUARY 1951, page 13

Art

To celebrate its jubilee and continued vigour the Whitechapel Art Gallery has mounted an exhibition of eighteenth-century Venetian paintings and drawings, chosen and catalogued......

The Wild Home Counties I Was Talking Yesterday With A

man born in one of the remote valleys in the North Riding, that land of ruined abbeys and isolated farms. He said something rather contemptuous about the tameness of the Home......

In The Garden

During the recent freeze-up I remarked how, in the ornamental pond, leaves of the water-lily were set like bronze plates, dessert size, just below the ice. Little bubbles of air......

"the 6pectator, Yanuarp Lltb, 1551

The festivities of the season at Woburn Abbey, which for five weeks past have been a point of attraction to the large and varied circle of those who enjoy the privilege of a......

Country Life

My recent reference to the blue feather in the robin's wing has orought an interesting letter from a reader in Sussex who, in the routine of her work among her chicken-houses,......