25 MAY 1951, page 13

Festival In The Village

Now that the National Jubilation is in full blast, every community in the land has come out in cross-garters. On Whit Monday night I went up to our hill-top village, where the......

In The Garden A Little Indulgence In Sheer Delight Is

permissible this week, for the spring flowers, in defiance of the unseasonable wind and temperatures, are abundant in their glory. I have never known such a season for......

Art

IT is perhaps ungracious to admit that my expectations were not fulfilled by the second open-air exhibition of sculpture in Battersea Park, for one must always be grateful for......

Chelsea Flower Show

ONE of the best things about the Chelsea Flower Show is that its title exactly defines its function ; it is a show of flowers. Vegetables hardly-intrude, and even flowering......

Country Life

CHARLES KfNGSLEY must have been either mad or wicked, that he could write a poem in praise of the North-East Wind. Only a mood of masochism could have driven him to it. Week......

An Elusive Moment

Determined to enjoy myself out of doors for a while, even though in an overcoat and scarf. 1 went for a stroll the other evening after sun- down. The half-moon was high, and its......

Exhibition Sherlock Holmes." (abbey House, Baker Street.)...

Britain, as it unfolds, is revealing many surprising and delightful pleasures, but is unlikely to show anything nearer perfection in its way than the reconstruction by the......