26 OCTOBER 1951, page 14

An The Nare's _head Sp Man Makes Deserts And Reclaims

them. The Nare's Head between the long arms of the Dodman and`the Lizard is a sea - girt headland where the wild and the pastoral are on terms of mutual confidence. The rugged......

Exhibition

THE Society of Scribes and Illuminators is showing an exhibition devoted to the art of calligraphy, lettering and illuminating at the Crafts Centre of Great Britain, 16-17, Hay......

Country Life

NOBODY with two eyes in his head can travel the byroads of England without, I should have thought, being horrified at the enormous acreage of wasteland he encounters everywhere.......

In The Garden This Is The Time When The Only

scented clernatis — flammu/a or Maiden's Bower—embalms the autumnal fulfilment. It is rather a nuisance to grow because its dense foliation' takes up room, but I mi. , mine......

Music •

SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI returned to Covent Garden on Monday, for the first time since 1937, to open the new season with Turandot. He was warmly welcomed, and took the final curtain......

A Farm In The Wilderness As Cobbett Well Knew, There

is all the difference in the world between a natural and an artificial wilderness. As an example of the former, the North Cornish coast takes some beating. Yet when that grand......