18 MAY 1951, page 20

Our English Scene

What is this quality ? Perhaps if we could define it we should lose it. It is a gentleness, a serenity: built is more than that. Our trees, o∎er- grown into fantastic shapes,......

A Good Anthology

I must recommend A Nature-Lover? Anthology, edited by R. M. Lockley (Witherby, 10s. 6d.), because the prose and verse chosen by thi , knowledgeable and sensitive naturalist add......

That Morning Chorus

Every year at this time correspondence in the Press turns to this matter of the birds' aubade. I remarked here recently that I found the robin to be the first bird to break into......

Country Life

ONE of the greatest pleasures of holidays is coming home again. Ali -r a more than usually sordid experience of the Channel crossing and passage through the Customs, I found my......

In The Garden

To return after a month's absence at this time of the year is to find one's garden so transformed as almost to create a touch of shyness in one's appreciative eye. For a moment......

An Historical Association While Exploring The Signoria...

Florence, I found a vast map-room, its walls decorated with fifteenth- and sixteenth-century conceptions of the various countries of the world into which the Medici gold had......