Art

Ler us first salute the reopening of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, remodelled and enriched, after twelve years of enforced recess. The extraordinary number of Festival......

Music

I DO not owe my earliest musical experiences to the Promenade concerts ; in fact I cannot have attended more than half a dozen in the old Queen's Hall before the war ; and I am......

Tripoding

On the way home, I was as surprised as delighted to see a field of tri-, poded hay. Why the Proctor tripod is not in universal use has long been a mystery to me. It is by far......

In The Garden

I have been trying an experiment with a new cross of the Laxton family—Royalty, a cross between the Cox and the Wise Apple (Couil Pendu Plat), a Russet so called because it does......

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Country Life

PAYING a visit to a remote manor in my neighbourhood, I passed throitgh the patch of new buildings tacked on to my village as to every other. First, the utilitarian new houses......

The Old Manor

The manor I was bound for stands at the end of a mile of private road shaded by white poplars and stag-headed elms, and the moat studded with water lilies—moats necklaced nearly......

The Die-hard

Rom free ; deceased with the Welfare State. They say he died too soon: he knew he lived too late. J. S. B., .......