Blind Boy's Prayer
GRANT me, Oh Lord, before I die, To see the earth, the sea, the sky, That in the winter I may know The whiteness of the fallen snow, That I may see with my own eyes The Spring......
Reasoning Tits It Was Delightfully Said By A Scientific...
on birds that they could be much cleverer if they had to be. An example of this may be quoted from a northern garden this winter. A lump of fat was hung from the bough of a......
Instinctive Failures
I wished to move a hive of bees a few yards to the west, chiefly for the reason that it was a cause of fear to a timid gardener. When I suggested to the visiting bee-man that I......
Spectator
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In The Garden
A number of people who keep a few poultry are inclined to grow sun- flowers for the sake of the oily seeds. Now sunflowers (which an Argen- tine farmer once said to me "make the......
Music
VERDI'S Falstaff is, with Don Giovanni the most ambitious work that has so far been given at the Ca mbridge Theatre ; and the venture is the more laudable because hitherto......
The Warm West
A letter from the North of England begins thus: "I came back to find the lizards basking on the rocks in the sun and doing nothing but blinking red eyes and thinking it was June......
Country Life The Growing Of The Grass—horace's Signal Of...
year singularly vivid, seems to have re-aroused the controversy on how to deal with it—to silo it, to dry it or to hay it. On behalf of the farmer the silo , seems to be......
Gramophone Notes
THERE are some really outstanding vocal records on my list. Maggie Teyte's two Faure songs, Le Secret and Clair de Lune (H.M.V.), should be missed by no connoisseur ; and......
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