22 DECEMBER 1939, page 17

Release From Passion The Urgency Of Body Drops Away And

relaxes ; No longer it levies its taxes upon the soul. The joys of common living, exempt from toll, no longer pay Their heavy duty but enter whole, Entire in their own beauty.......

Country Life

Popular Hollies THE celebration of Christmas cast its shadow before it in many country places in the shape of lorries that were sent in numbers round the lanes to gather holly.......

Birds At Eventide

In the most persistent and destructive attacks made by the immigrant starlings on the late-sown wheats it is interesting to note both the birds' technique and the fortune of a......

Art

" The Spectator " and The Academy HALF a century ago, in December, 1889, I was summoned to the little old office of The Spectator in Wellington Street, by Waterloo Bridge. On......

Rod Versus Rood

Our village has been summoned to discuss allotments. They have been dwindling. One group has just been given up by the Parish Council, which is the lord of that form of......

Christmas Trees

We shall be able on Christmas Day to adorn our houses with flowers as well as berries. Not even roses and out-of- door chrysanthemums will be extinct on Christmas eve. The......