Little Deer
Many of those who have commented on the proposal to acclimatise the elk in Scotland seem to imply that deer of any sort are rare in England. They are, in fact, to be found in......
Footnoted
Noted with gratitude: Mr. John Gielgud's reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland. But this is a voice that could read Baedeker and make it a linked......
Radio
ONE of the best recent B.B.C. broadcasts was of no earth-shaking consequence. It was Tommy Handley, a tribute by his old friends and colleagues on the first anniversary of his......
Country Life
ON no single theme in the prognostics of weather are more prophecies in existence than the warmth of January. They all, so far as I remember, aver that warm days in the opening......
In The Garden
The discovery of the earth block, and the invention of a tool to make it, seem to me a real advance in the mechanics of gardening. That most vulnerable container, the......
A Blank, My Lord ....
I wonder, by the way, whether a knowledge of Shakespeare's stage would have helped the producer and actors of the recent television Twelfth Night ; but I'm tempted to think that......
Matter And Manner There Have Been Good Talks Recently. There
have also been some bad ones ; but these I may leave in oblivion. The B.B.C. does not succeed every time in finding speakers who have the double art of writing a talk for the......
Music
THE programmes of the winter season of Promenade Concerts which has begun this week contain a very fair proportion of works by British composers of the older generation, but......
Urban Trees
Not long since I made a rather unkind reference to the planting of trees in parts of London, where the plane and the much suckering ailanthus (a tree of earth rather than "of......
The Mill-wheel Turns
After some enquiry I find that a fair number of local mills — once a godsend to the locality and of value to themselves—have again come into service after a period of......
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