21 JANUARY 1949, page 15

Country V. Town One Of The Drawbacks Of Our Civilisation

has been the opposition between country and town ; but we have had a good deal of evidence that the two were beginning to understand one another. Unhappily some of the present......

Country Life

FROM the base of Dale Fort, that most gracious field-studies centre, the company went forth to see how many species of plant they could find in flower as the New Year opened.......

Holly And Hawks London As A Rus In Urbe Has

been very much in evidence. There is the much discussed holly hedge along Piccadilly, which is to rival the famous hedge of John Evelyn. It should do well. Holly, though a......

Art

A MIXED week. At Wildenstein's a memorial exhibition of Thomas Lowinsky's curious talent. Too late for one movement, Lowinsky yet contrived to forestall another and, embedded as......

A Name There May Be Nothing In A Name, But

what a difference a slight mis- pronunciation may make ! The other day on the B.B.C. a highly senti- mentalised voice ended a poetic description of a scene with an ecstatic......

Music

LISTENING to the progrimme of seventeenth-century madrigals and instrumental pieces, given by the. Boyd Neel Orchestra and some Morley College singers on January 17th, I......

In The Garden The Cold Greenhouse, So-called, Is Often...

true to its adjective. It seems sometimes to accentuate frost and proves a useless protection, partly for the reason that ventilation is a necessity. A very slight warming may......

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