13 NOVEMBER 1953, page 12

Music

EUGENE GOOSSENS'S periodical visits to this country are always the occasion for concerts at which the programmes carry just that suspicion of something different which is now so......

Country Life

As we had planned, we fired the great heap of brush in the kitchen garden on the evening of the Fifth. Our blaze lit the shadows beneath the pine trees on the hill, and the......

Art

AFTER the Football Association's gesture come two more invited exhibitions: one of coronation paintings sponsored by the Minister of Works, to be seen in the Pillared Hall of......

A Feast Of Berries While I Was Resting In The

wood, looking out at the clump of hawthorns growing on the hillside, I began to take an interest in a group of magpies that were fluttering round the trees and apparently......

Falling Leaves

The fall of the leaf is a sad thing whether it comes at the end of October or in the darker days of November. One year it seems as though the trees might hold their leaves in......

Gooseberry Cuttings November Is The Time For Planting...

and bushes, a good time to prune goose- berries and red-currants as well as the season for setting cuttings of both these berry bushes. Use shoots of current season's growth for......