17 SEPTEMBER 1948, page 15

The Cinema

MONSIEUR VINCENT is the story of Vincent de Paul who lived in France in the early seventeenth century and was in love with the poor. Through plagues, wars, civil wars and......

Dogs And Flowers Are King Charles Spaniels Different From...

other dogs in at least one sense ? The question is suggested by two letters, one from Oxford, one from Chesterfield, which are almost identical in their general sense. Both......

Vagrant Swarms The Wide And Eager Interest Of Bee-keepers In

the question of vagrant swarms is my apology for returning to the subject. The question of rights in such swarms is by no means settled as a legal correspondent ' suggested. On......

Music

THE Edinburgh Festival ended on Sunday, with the final concert of the Augusteo Orchestra in the afternoon and the Glasgow Orpheus Choir in the evening. Opinions seem to have......

Swifts And Late Flowers One Verdict In Standard Books On

birds has been qualified by this summer's experience ; swifts were to be seen in many parts of the country towards the end of August. One, for example, was watched in London......

In The Garden

I was introduced this week to a flower, a very lovely and useful flower, that was new to me. It is associated with the name of M. Raoul Martin, though I do not know whether he "......

Country Life

THE harvest fields have taken on a likeness to those of Victorian and earlier days ; they are crowded, as seldom before, with gleaners, men, women and children, who mean real......

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