5 OCTOBER 1951, page 25

The Cherry Orchards

Not the least of the seductions of Campden, neither village nor market- town but a unique self betwixt and between, is its cherry orchards that ring it round, into which the "......

A Future Life In The O.t.

SIR, —The temptation to read Christian meaning into the Old Testament Is exemplified in the doctrine of the future life. There is no doubt that the Hebrews hoped for a future......

In The Garden

One of the very loveliest of English gardens I know is that of Hidcote Bartrim Manor on the northern edge of the Cotswolds. Its principal charm is a long turf walk, bordered by......

Country Life

1 OFTEN revisit places endeared to me by old associations, but none with the quickening (life, wrote Henry Vaugban, is "a quickness which rrty God bath kissed ") that agitates......

A Folk - Tale Through The Agency Of Friends, Notably The...

of the Evcsham R.D.C., and by personal contacts with the people, I once collected what I think must be one of the most remarkable hordes of rural folk-tales in Britain. I give......

New Postage Stamps

S1R,—During the first week in May we were all startled to find that our postage stamps had been entirely rearranged. Those of your readers who asked the postal clerks for an......

German Students In England

S1R,—Some 750 students from German universities will soon be on their way to this country to give our farmers help in gathering in the potato and sugar-beet harvest. A secondary......