Music
The Pastoral ' Symphony OF all the nine, Beethoven's ' Pastoral ' Symphony has suffered the greatest vicissitudes of public favour. At one time it was among the most popular,......
Wooding
Walking along a familiar village street on the day when coal fell short, you might have thought that the place was a timber-yard. Axe, saw, wedge and mallet were being ardently......
Country Life
At Last Never within most memories have so many people in Britain given a more hearty welcome to the first approach of spring. Farmers had not seen their land, much less touched......
Berry Weather
A Scottish correspondent asks me the old question whether there is any authority for the belief that much fruit is the prelude to a hard winter. It happens that I have just dis-......
Food Or Fodder In Times Of Economy We Maintain Too
sharp a contrast be- tween food and fodder. Some fodder is better than some food. I would, for example, mention among a school of gourmets that the swede, used almost......
Art
At Maples, and Elsewhere THE National Society's Exhibition (Royal Institute Galleries, Piccadilly) has a morbid interest. The pictures patter down every little avenue that leads......
Mystic Weeds
On the subject of useful weeds, an attempt is being made to give a scientific basis to a sort of mystic belief in the efficacy of some common weeds. Here is one claim. In one......
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