A Nocturne The New March Moon Has Brought A Change

to the hours after dark. I was out prowling round before dinner, with the corgi snuffling his way along like a miniature doodle-bomb, exploding at every rabbit-hole. Light had......

Signs Of Hope

That was a memorable walk, for the return of the rooks was not the only sign of spring that came my way. Further gales and floods had filled the Weald with open lakes where......

Country Life

I WAs wrong, or at least premature, about the absence of rooks from the nests in the copse at Hushheath Manor, that shapely, small Eliza- bethan housc with an Italian garden on......

In The Garden I Am Anxiously Watching The Graftings On

the old winter pear, for the heavy weather has washed away most of the clay with which they wets affianced to the old wood. No sign of life yet. When Thomas Cromwell, in the......

Music Only Five Years Lie Between Schonberg's Tone-poem...

Melisande, composed in 1902-3, and Hoist's chamber opera Savitri of 1908, two works which have been heard in London this last week. Schonberg's op. 5 is a monstruAr informe,......

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