24 DECEMBER 1948, page 17

Plays For The Holidays

THE dramatic critic is reminded at Christmas that Nature intended him not only to be childless (doubtless a comparatively easy feat, if you give your mind to it) but also to be......

Country Life

IT used to be said that spring had arrived when you could cover five daisy flowers with your foot. If that is a true test, spring was with us this December. Daisies (which......

Mistletoe Hosts One Of The Imports That Come To A

climax at Christmas is mistletoe, which, in general, is not as common in England as one might expect or perhaps as it used to be when the Druids found it even on oaks. It is......

In The Garden In Spite Of Admiration For The Continuous

cloche—the most protective of garden inventions — I have always felt an unreasonable preference for the old French bell-jar, which has become too cumbrous and expensive. Now I......

A Police Biologist The Old Music - Hall Advice, " Ask A

Policeman," has been quaintly justified by a traveller who brought over some chameleons from Africa. He wanted, and sought in vain for, a male of the species, and finally in......

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Seasonable Preferences It Remains An Ineradicable Belief...

that a cold Christmas is better for our health than a warm; and though this may be wholly unjustified, at least in regard to the more antique members of the village, it is......

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