24 APRIL 1953, page 18

Larch Wood

When the sun is shining and the larch is turging green, it only needs a little breeze to make things perfect, for the swaying of the soft green leaves and the sight of the neat......

Tide-line Walk

Along one side of the road was a stretch of ploughing, and on the other the beach, a stony stretch that terminated beneath a low cliff where boulders covered with weed marked......

National Theatre Appeal

SIR,—The Committees of the National Theatre and the British Drama League have approved the plan of the late Geoffrey Whitworth for a bust of Harley Granville-Barker by Jacob......

The Dancer

Old S. once stopped me on the road to tell me how he and his wife had danced in their youth. " There was nobody like us," he said. " We was tireless. We danced everywhere, an'......

Verse In Spring

et,—Mr. Richard Usborne's timely plea for a research project on the muses which lead many people to write poetry in the spring will cer- tainly be welcomed by all those who......

Country Life

IMPRESSED with the sociable behaviour of four jackdaws sitting side by side and close together on the same spar of a small pine-tree. watched them for a while. At length one of......

Sowing Season One Can Overlook A Sowing Now And Garden

disappointing later; so it is written out, following the sowing of spinach, broccoli and winter cabbage and scarlet runners, and the planting find the planning of a vegetable-......

Sors Vergiliana

For years not few was Harris regnant where This day you fill the editorial chair; And prove "Avolso primo " still doth fit Since here " non alter aureus deficit."......