A Craft's Survival The History Of The Carver-craftsmen...
gouging out the architect's pleasing and ingenious patterns for the friezes has a sur- prising finale. They used to be vagrom or nomad, moving to any place, generally a great......
Crocus Or Speedwell ?
Commenting the other day on the early emergence of the hive bees, a highly scientific critic averred that the bees avoided the garden flowers, preferring weeds because they......
Country Life
SOME sort of aesthetic controversy seems to have arisen around the oak panels, friezes and pendants that are to adorn the newly repaired House of Commons. After spending a......
Disappearance Of Rabbits A Popular Phrase Is " Our Humanised
scenery." No one ever suggests that it is also a coneyised scenery. Rabbits have completely prevented natural reafforestation, at any rate by ash and holly. What a pity it is,......
Now On Sale.—the Spectator Index For July To December, 1947.
Price is. 6d. By Post Is. 7d.—Send remittance to THE SPECTATOR, 99 Gower Street,......
Music
AFTER reading with great interest Sir Patrick Abercrombie's letter on The Mastersingers in last week's issue, I have been hoping for a sequel which will describe the reactions......
In The Garden Wherever I Go, Today By The New
Forest, yesterday in Norfolk, I see fields gleaming with cloches. They are perhaps (as the French maraichers have always realised, as also the Dutch) most useful about this......
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