16 APRIL 1948, page 14

Music

AT the London Contemporary Music Centre's concert on April 13th Elizabeth Hoengen sang the fifteen songs of Schonberg's op. 15 settings from Stefan George's Das Buch der......

In The Garden

A year or two ago it was regarded as a mild jest when the curing of fruit-tree maladies by pills was recommended. Today the method is well established ; is almost normal. The......

Heredity

THE lines of his young face Stained by brief April tears Show how love's features thrust Up from the long-dead years, And in his eyes I trace The resurrected dust ; The same......

Spectator

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Gramophone Notes

H.M.V. have issued two remarkable recordings of classical violin concertos : Beethoven's played by Menuhin with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Furtwangler, and Brahms's by......

A Tree - Worshipper It Happened That The Memory Of W. H.

Hudson, the greatest of the Jefferies school, was celebrated in London last week by an Anglo- Argentine group. It should have been attended by Miss Nancy Price, who on the same......

A Centenary This Year Is The Centenary Of Richard Jefferies

; and though opinions differ abruptly on his merit as a writer there is no doubt that he started a school of thought almost in the Wordsworth manner. By way of celebration the......

Country Life

APRIL beyond all question is the most exciting, the fullest, of months for any naturalist, especially for those interested in bird migration ; and so far as swallow and cuckoo......