15 DECEMBER 1939, page 17

Country Life

Why ? A highly developed sense of beauty is not general in London children, but a number of little evacuated children were overwhelmed with wonder at their first sight of hoar-......

Sex And Season

A great sportsman assures me (in answer to a query of mine) that there are what he calls cock years and hen years— that is exceptional seasons which encourage the production of......

Art

Paintings and Lithographs GOODNESS knows what the picture-buying public is to do. People are told to save, and they are also told that there are thousands of artists out of work......

Full Rods

That absurdly English unit of area, the rod, pole or perch, retains its full popularity in rural England. It makes a notable appearance in the admirable scheme for the higher......

Christmas Lilies

After visiting St. Helena a year or two back, I wrote with some enthusiasm of the St. Helena Lily, from which the very poor inhabitants of that pleasant island hoped to earn a......