Friends In Need A Number Of Stories—to Which I Could
add from my own experience— have recently reached me of the queer confidence shown in man by animals of many sorts, both birds and mammals, when in extreme danger. Here is one......
Music
THREE works written within three years of each other have turned my attention back forty years. Mahler's Song of the Earth, written in 1908, was played by the L.P.O. under van......
Welcome Fat Those Who Feed Birds, A Very Desirable Charity
during late frosts, are wont to wonder why a good many species, such as wrens, buntings, red- wings and tit-larks, some most vulnerable to the starvation of cold, will not be......
A Query A Quaint Question Is Put To Me: Do
hedgehogs eat potatoes ? A gardener who suspected rats found a dead hedgehog, and thereafter no potatoes were eaten. It is one of the odder and least explicable super- stitions......
In The Garden I Made Some Allusion In The Past
to the growing popularity of the annual carnations and of the newer pentstemons. To these may be added the later petunias. A magnificent variety has been " created " after years......
Country Life
THERE is an old, trite Latin couplet (quoted by Sir Thomas Browne): "Si so! splendescat Maria purificante Major erit glacies post feswni quam fuit ante ; " and there is a......
Art
FUSEL1 to me has always suggested the bogus clairvoyant who one day, without quite knowing how, managed to "get through." The posturing little Swiss—" capricious, vain and......
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