Commendations Commended: Mr. Michael Howard, An Urbane...
Howard. Mr. Howard has a neat, unfrenzied touch. Commended also: The Plain Man's Guide To Music, in which symphonies and orchestras are painlessly dissected, without any......
Country Life
I MET last week an enthusiastic farmer—and farmers are not famed for enthusiasm—coming from the last of his threshing. He said: " The figures arc the best we have ever had. Both......
Thebes And Alexandra Palace The Week's Achievement—and A...
remember—was tele- vision's production of Antigone, to which Alexandra Palace incom- prehensibly gave only one performance. There may well have been good practical reasons, but......
Radio
LAST week there were three most interesting programmes on The Technique of Acting, which I had missed when they were first broadcast in the early summer. It may well be that I......
In The Garden At This Time Of Year By Far
the best of all shrubs seems to be Rhus Caninoides (from North America). It outflamcs R. Cotinus (from South Europe) and is found to be hardier in garden hollows ; and it......
Cereal Thieves One Of The Present Day's Regulations...
has a certain biological interest. Threshers are ordered to surround the stack in question with a wire, with the aim of destroying the rats and mice that are evicted. I noticed......
More Butterflies In My District Butterflies Were...
October was well advanced, when at last Red Admirals, Painted Ladies and Clouded Yellows began to appear, but Commas, which have been numerous of late years, were wholly absent.......
Four Paradises During The Year The Council For The Promotion
of Field Studies has proved itself to be of really national value, and its work is likely to be greatly enlarged to include younger students. The four chief centres— at Flatford......
General Knowledge For Expert Performance, Let Me Praise...
the Form, in which two teams of schoolboys and schoolgirls round and about the country play General Post with general knowledge. Half the time I find these children woefully......
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