17 AUGUST 1944, page 18

Fiction

Miss MARGARET LANE is a novelist who publishes only infrequensis which is a pity, for she is much better company, a much nu sympathetic writer than many of our bright and hardy......

Country Life

THE harvest field has lost little of its pictorial quality by the c of the cutter-and-binder, which after all is often horse-dra Contrariwise, the harvester-thresher, never......

Poems. By David Bourne. (lane. 75. 6d.)

A GLIMPSE into the workshop of a talented young poet is always of interest, especially when the craftsman has so sensitive and receptive a spirit as David Bourne. We cannot,......

In My Garden Two Of Our Horticultural Experts At Any

rate have been an extended cultivation of endive. Doubtless the reason why best of all winter salad plants has not been popular in this (where many amateur gardeners are a......

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Sheafless Harvest One Of The Causes Of The Beauty Of

harvest is the supposed n. of leaving the sheaves for a considerable period in the open, the grain may dry and mature. Each sort of cereal has had traditional period, and......

The Naturalist In India Some Further Notes Of Admiration...

reached me (from Indian neighbourhood) about a certain genius in the life of jungle, who incidentally has been educating some of our t in woodlore. In August, 1918, General......

Shorter Notice

THE Penguin New Writing •is always extremely good value for 9d. This is a good number for criticism but poor for rapportage and creative work, with the exception of Louis......