Music
AT the first night of the Metropolitan Ballet at the Scala Theatre, and again at Giselle on June 7th at Covent Garden, I fell to wonder- ing, as George Moore would say, what......
The Nightingale This Year I Heard My First Nightingale On
April 19th performing in a willow tree overhanging a dell only two hundred yards from the house. For several warm nights the " wanderer from a Grecian shore " competed with the......
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The Summer Orchards Work In The Apple-orchards Never...
present the tractors are winding their way in and out among the trees, pulling wide cutters over the grass. My neighbour, the farmer, assures me that this is preferable nowadays......
Country Life
ONE morning during the recent unsettled weather I stood at the gate to the cornfield that slopes away from my garden, southward to a disused quarry, and thence to the bottom of......
In My Garden A Year Ago I Brought Home From
a friend's garden in Le Lavandou, on the Mediterranean, a handsome cactus which I planted at the foot of a grass-bank in a sunk garden behind the house. It immediately began to......
Art
JUNE has burst like a rocket and scattered a little constellation of brilliant exhibitions over London. Let us take them in chronological order. First there is Matthiesen's......