22 JUNE 1951, page 14

Crossing The Ferry

Unless I am in a hurry, which I always seek not to be, there is nothing I enjoy more than crossing the Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry. This experience gives all the pleasures of going......

Music

Parsifal was given at Covent Garden on June 16th, and has once again aroused in most listeners all the old questions. Nietzsche posed many of them but not all ; for the......

In The Garden

The roses are now coming into their kingdom, with crown and sceptre and bands of music. Except for a dozen new bushes, replacements of casualties, my rose-beds are peopled by......

Ballet

Company of Spanish Dancers. (Sadler's Wells.) THIS should be a memorable month in the London dance-world, for at the Cambridge Theatre and at Sadler's Wells two unrivalled......

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Some June Wild Flowers

Stopping on a drive back from Cambridge (sleepy after May-meek festivities), I took a nap on the Downs, and waking up found myself surrounded by flowers which 1 had not noticed......

The Cuckoo's Habits

What an elusive fellow he is ; always in the next valley, always mosing off and leaving his derisive cry behind him, just as a jet-plane leaves its whistle a quarter of a mile......

Country Life

This is the week in the high summer season when the cry of the cuckoo has become so familiar to our ear that we tend to ignore it. Rut soon it will break its rhythm, and stop.......