Music
How pleasant if one could have said that the 1950 Edinburgh Festival started off with a bang, but how untrue. All the bangs in the opening concert by the Orchestre National de......
Country Life
ENOUGH has not been heard of late, though its activities haw: not waned, of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, which now has to fight against the planners as......
In The Garden
A great deal of scientific—and indeed almost mystic advice has been given us on the subject of compost. It is doubtless excellent ; but there is something to be said for the......
The Spectator
readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold copies are......
What Is It ?
Most country people, even if they are considerably learned, come from time to time upon some creature which they do not know and would like to identify. How shall this ignorance......
Rose History An Ardent Amateur Gardener Complains That No...
and indeed no book known to him gives the desired information about roses. What is a tea rose, for example, or a musk rose and how did the garden grow? Our garden roses—how......
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