How Depressing It Is To See Hardly Anything But The
baler in the harvest fields and stacks like piles of boxes! The arm of the machine jogs up and down like an animated or rather clockwork signpost. No wonder thatching is dying......
The Rake's Progress.
Muca was expected of Stravinsky's new opera, The Rake's Progress. But even now that it has had its first performance (at the Venice Biennale under the composer's direction on......
A Night Visitant
How different the conduct of a familiar of the night watches I have just lost! This was a Clouded Border moth (Lonastilis marginata) that used to visit my bedside during that......
In The Garden
The apple-harvest is very late this year, but Beauty of Bath was ready in mid-September. I had one, but cut it down as uneatable. In our curious age apples are sold rather for......
Country Life
IN spite of what the Cotswold folk used to call " casalty" weather. September has been a waspish month, both literally and figuratively. W. H. Hudson had a soft spot for wasps,......
Music
IT is an odd fact, not by any means creditable to concert-promoters, programine-builcters, the public or whoever else can reasonably be considered responsible, that Racine......
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