Bird-song
Very many bird-songs (as the B.B.C. reminds us weekly). have been recorded ; and the records doubtless should help beginners to learn songs. Yet how utterly the records fail to......
Gramophone Notes
There are two beautiful Verdi recordings—Lina Pagliughi's Sul d'un sofilo, from Falstaff (Part.), and Boris Christoff's Ella giannainfamo, from Don Carlos (H.M.V.). These are......
The Bus
" UPSTAIRS," say the small boys. " Inside," says the bus conductor, And how like it is, good lord, to us unhappy students. Away with aspirations to the heights, into the safe......
In The Garden Here Is A Gardener's Experience Of The
value of the Coco bean, that Miss Talbot and others have been urging us all to grow. " During the war I received from an American source a packet of climbing French ' Indigo'......
"ielje Spectator," April 20th, 1850
THE CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT On Wednesday night we were present at a meeting at St. Martin's Hall. The business in hand was colonizing notwith- standing the Colonial Office. A less......
The Invincible Wheat
In the wild not more than one seed in "a myriad " successfully germinates, as Tennyson, the most careful of poets, pointed out in a later edition. In his first he had suggested......
Country Life
LOCAL diaries are always interesting. The following comes (incidentally and in effect in a letter on other subjects) from the Hampshire-Dorset boundary. " How wonderfully early......
Flower Thieves
A very melancholy tale of the disappearance of wild flowers comes . from Staffordshire, and that from the region of the charming Masefield sanctuary which was given largely to......
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