Music

THERE is plenty of time for reflection during a Wagnerian music- drama, and some of the less irrelevant things that occurred to my mind during the arider and more repetitive......

Good Birds And Bad The Kestrel Has Recently Earned Good

conduct marks in an assessment of the value of birds to human economy. It does not, I think, take other birds on the wing, in the manner preferred by the peregrine and indeed......

Country Life

ONE of the large " murmurations of stares," probably more numerous this year than usual, was flying near the sea by Clacton when they became aware of a kestrel hovering......

Art

ANNA MAYERSON'S conceptual improvisations at the Hanover Gallery owe more than a little to Paul Klee—in their mobility, their orches- tration of colour, their linear arabesques......

Vulpine Economy Since That Savage But Interesting Animal...

is presently to be the cause of much barking in the House of Commons, it is not out of place to consider the economy, not to say the ecology, of such ferae natural. I have been......

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In The Garden To Plant Now Or To Wait ?

That is the present question in regard to such crops as broad beans, even peas and many annual flowers. I should have expected that the popularity of cloches, which still......

Playing Birds

Complaints of the more or less new game of the tits continue to arrive, especially, as before, from Cornwall. One Cornish observer—aged ten— describes how after removing......