Country Life
ALLUSIONS to the Three Ice-men or Saints have been so numerous that they were, I feared, beginning to rival the three balls over the pawnbrokers' shops that beset the pen of......
In The Garden Twice In Recent Years The Rough Grass
in an orchard has been burnt (after mowing round the widely separated standard trees). One result is that every single buttercup (of a comely but poisonous race) has perished.......
Save The Trees The Council For The Preservation Of Rural
England, which held its annual meeting last week, continues to grow in strength, and with both force and promptitude comes to the aid 'of local watch-dogs. Among a host of......
Music
As I sat at the last of the Gerald Cooper concerts and listened to Professor Dent's eloquent and generous panegyric of the founder of the series, I wondered how many of the......
Rooks On The Farm With Its Usual Ignorance Of Rural
details, the Government has been urging the destruction of rooks. It has been demonstrated again and again that the rook is beneficial. I remember discussing the question with a......
Art
AUGUSTUS JOHN has chosen to exhibit his latest work, not at Burling- ton House, but at the Leicester Galleries. This, his first one-man show for a good many years, includes a......
A Most Norfolk Naturalist Perhaps The Most Facetious...
can recall in the career of naturalists was the removal of a fire escape at Geneva, desired for approaching the elevated nest (so far as I remember) of a honey buriard. The......
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