19 APRIL 1946, page 16

Country Towns The First Of The New Towns Directly Fostered

by the Government is to be Stevenage, which is roughly halfway between the two first "gardepi cities "—Letchworth and Lemsford, falsely called Welwyn. Tp see good land and a......

A Criticism Sir,—shortly After I Had Read The Sparkling...

in which Mr. Burnell exposed your own cart-horse-like action, these lines came to me: There once was of prose a cultured amator, Who for lively examples did scan The Spectator,......

Alfred Stevens And Humility Sir,—it Is Not Surprising...

art critic should dislike the work of Alfred Stevens, as it is axiomatic with the younger school of critics that anything, whether it be music, art, literature, the drama,......

Semi - Liberty

The ingenious little Avicultural Magazine, edited by Miss Barclay- Smith (of the Zoo, if I may say so), is making play with a more or less new term. It has issued a special "......

Country Life

EASTER should prove to coincide with the peak of bluebell time, when the half-open woods are at their loveliest and indeed some other un- expected sites. The hyacinth that we......

General Booth And W. T. Stead

Sn1,—ComMissioner -Lamb in- his interesting article on Salvation Army history writes, "After publication of his great book In Darkest England and the Way Out, General Booth. ........

In My Garden In The Course Of Bringing A Pergola

to an end I regret especially two or three plants, which greatly pleased in their due season: a golden hop, a tamarisk and an ivy-leafed blackberry. There is no good reason why......

If Or F

1 1 Sta,—Could one of your more erudite readers inform me as to the curious usage of writing certain names with a small ff instead of a'• capital letter? I have always......

Bluebell And Oxlip

The late director of Kew started an experiment • to see whether plucking bluebells, even down to the bleached part of the stem, did them any harm. He rather thought not. His......

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