2 JANUARY 1948, page 17

Music

Two entries under the heading Critics . in Schumann's aphorisms have given me food for that particular kind of reflection which is practised all the year round in Russia under......

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Country Life

IT is, I think, generally granted that the Fairbridge Farms represent the best of all the forms of emigration from Great Britain to the Dominions. This Christmas a special......

Large-lipped, Shock-haired, Neanderthal Of Brow, His Face...

far ethereal look That comes and goes in animal eyes. He took The vast East Anglian heavens, which overbow The earthiest earth which ever dwarfed a plough, By native kingship as......

Churches And Animal Welfare

It is claimed by U.F.A.W. (University Fellowship of Animal Welfare) that a recent proclamation by the Church in Scotland is the first public avowal by any Church that kindness......

Plants Popular With Bees I Notice That In Answer To

a query what quickly growing hedge plants are popular with bees, the C.G.A. (which has a particular skill in answer- ing difficult questions) suggests that lonicera yunnanense......

Prognostic Berries One Popular Belief, Doubtless Now...

superstition, is particularly hard to kill: it is that few berries, especially few holly berries, portend a warm and kindly winter. Well, '4 cannot remember any year in which......

In My Garden

A good many people have kept a pod many sorts of apples in perfect condition till the New Year. Many of the russets, for example, are now at their best, and even Cox's still in......