18 MAY 1929, page 10

The Country House Smell

P ERHAPS you must have a town-bred nose to get it—this country house smell. In any case you only seem to sense it perfectly on the day of arrival at a country house. Pierre Loti......

Architecture As A School Subject G Eneral Knowledge, In...

world, may mean almost anything : in' Public School exami- nations it often, means a mixture of history, geography, and Scripture ; at . private preparatory schools, so far as......