20 AUGUST 1948, page 14

The Devlin It Is Surprising That In My Immediate...

the swifts (about whose migratory movements a special enquiry has been organised) have almost taken the place of swallows. They are more numerous, fly low as well as high, and......

• Quitters

A 'curious account reaches Me from a Surrey resident of the sudden and total disappearance of the swifts (sometimes called black-martins) on the approach of a cold bout of......

Country Life

DESIRE for the sun may be as ardent in this England as thirst for rain in, say, Palestine. Almost everything that grows is short of sunlight. Plums are actually rotting on the......

In The Garden That Famous Gardener, Mr. Clarence Elliott,...

throwing scorn on most wild vegetables—nettles, hop-shoots and the rest—gives it as his considered opinion (in The Countryman) that Good King Henry, a common enough weed, is......

Art

Tim Arts Council currently honours Wales and Ireland. The large exhibition of drawings and paintings by Augustus John, first brought together for the week of the Eisteddfod at......

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In The Collected Musical Writings Of Paul Dukas I Came

the other day upon what must be one of the earliest direct attacks upon the concerto form as an outworn vehicle of showmanship and "personality." It was dated 1895 and already......