Country Life
OCTOBER makes some amends for a summer of adolescent promise but . soon falling into a melancholic middle age and a soured eld. The late sun came shouldering through the rolling......
Music
Hoaowrrz easily filled the Festival Hall for his recital last Saturday, even at the very high prices. These unfortunately meant that com- paratively few young enthusiasts were......
Ballet
Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. (Cambridge.) SINCE last week the de Cuevas Company has presented three of its new productions, Skibine's Tragedy of Verona, Taras's Le Bal des......
A Query About The Blackbird Is Not The Blackbird Becoming
too abundant 2 Certainly in my garden blackbirds outnumber the song-thrushes with their more delicate constitu- tion by at least ten to one. And I am sure they are less......
Aust Cliff
The multicoloured geological display of Aust Cliff is a wonder. From the ferry it is red, with a band of greenish stone near the crest, and above that black earth with slabs of......
In The Garden Before The Blackbirds Got To Work, A
September gale more than deci- mated my fruit crop. An " act of God " ? Not so: the shelter-belts and wind-screens have all been cut down of recent years, and the rapacious......
Art
FOR Picasso's 70th birthday the Institute of Contemporary Arts has arranged a retrospective exhibition of his drawings, from a careful study of a plaster cast, done at the age......
The Eel-catcher
Here, between Oldbury and Aust Cliff, the beacon that signals the junction of Severn and Wye, is to be seen a hale old man busy at a basket-weir emptying the " foreweels " into......
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