20 JULY 1929, page 9

We Have A Row Of Peaches Ripening In The Sun

on our window-sills and it is necessary to inspect these and condemn the ripest to capital punishment before break- fast. That done we seek the honey-pot on the balcony and sit......

Chekhov : Twenty-five Years After

T HE twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Chekhov (he died on July 15th, 1904) has passed almost unnoticed in Moscow, where the habit of celebrating every imaginable......

Madonna Of The Little Bees From A Dolomite Notebook] T He

actual moment of arriving back at full con- sciousness after uninterrupted sleep is so important, it seems to me, that I wonder the psycho-analysts, ad- vanced educationists and......