Music

MY notice of The Ring, in these columns last year, brought me a letter of protest, whose author first honoured me with the title of " London's Pocket Hanslick," and then refined......

Country Life

LAST week I saw with no little pleasure, in the neighbourhood of Salis- bury, a high wall of rubble newly and expertly thatched in the old manner. It was good craftsman's work,......

Parks And Preservation

The advertisement of the really excellent little pamphlet called National Parks and Access to the Countryside ends: " It (the Act) pro- vides also for the conservation of our......

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A Rural Craft The Counties Have Much To Teach One

another. Earlier this year I was much struck by the perfection of the art of hedge-laying which flourishes in new vigour in Leicestershire and parts of East Anglia. Not long......

Cinema

"Ruy Blas." (New Gallery.) —4 4 Treasure Island." (Leicester Square.)--“ Louisa." (London Pavilion.) M. JEAN MARAIS' dimpled countenance, a countenance so blatantly attractive......

A Rare Victim Cuckoos Are, I Think, More Than Usually

numerous, certainly in the Lakes where once Wordsworth, listening to them, could "beget that golden time again." Thereabout I saw daily a company of three disagreeing together.......

In The Garden In My Garden—thanks Chiefly To A Kindly

gift—are now in blossom some of the odder examples of the new crosses between the carnation and the sweet william. Unskilled gardeners ask what flowers they are, and are struck,......