There Exists An Admirable Institution, Known As The...
and Travel Society, the aim of which is to mitigate these illusions. Gifted Francophiles, such as Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill and the late Sir Philip Sassoon, conceived the idea......
I Welcomed These Enquiries, Partly Because They Came As A
relief from questions regarding Gibraltar or the Alto Adige, and partly because the subject is one which has always interested me and around which I have woven a pet theory.......
* * * * I Had Occasion This Week To
conduct a party of these delightful Parisians round a typically English garden. They had already visited, and been suitably impressed by, the show places of South-Eastern......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE French, being insular by temperament, do not always realise that there can exist types of culture different from their own. One of the main causes of......
* * * * It Was He, And Not I,
who at that stage changed the sub- ject. " And what," he asked, " do you feel about the Ciano communique?" I told him. " And as regards the Tyrol . . ." he continued.......
* * My French Friends Were Much Relieved When I
reached the end of my lecture. One of them suggested that the real reasons why our gardens were preferable to those of other countries were (a) because we had no sense of archi-......
The Hortus Conclusus Of Our Mediaeval Palaces And...
scarcely have differed in design from the gardens of Egypt and Persia ; and the old " hcrbers " or arbours, the trim garden-plots in which was grown the meadowsweet which Queen......
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