23 JUNE 1933, page 16

Oxford Is A Long Way Ahead Of Any Other Place

in the art of preservation, and the vigour of the accomplishment. No monument can be too high for Sir Michael Sadler and the rest or indeed for the Pilgrim's ,Trust and an......

Preservation Is A Difficult Business, Of Course. As I Read

an admirable anti-litter 'notiee on the top of Shotover, the " hare " in a paper chase ran past and deposited an unusually large consignment of his - ill-torn paper at the very......

Matthew Arnold Is Peculiar Among The Poets, I Think, For

his emphasis on scent. How he loved the lime-tree ! though that is not the species of the famous tree dedicated to his memory. The fact that he often refers to garden flowers......

A Paternal Canary.

This is the true tale of two—now seven—canaries. A solitary bird was provided with a mate and almost at once the two began building a nest in which presently the original hen......

On Foot In Devon.

A singularly gay, light-hearted and at the same time useful and accurate guide-book (written by a very good naturalist) has been published this week about a county that I have......

Country Life

A MOPEL OF PRESERVATION. , In a very literal sense we may well congratulate the Oxford Preservation Society on being attended by " the vision splendid." It has seized and......

The Whole Place—mound And Pit And Even Garden—is An Untidy

mess just at present, but Sir Arthur Evans certainly had, and has the vision splendid, not in one direction but in many. The garden will be a representation of a number of the......

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Association with Matthew Arnold will always give a literary savour to the place. His special tree Survives ; and it is, I believe, the intention to pay some special attention to......