He Is At His Very Best, Perhaps (as Behoves A
great oarsman Who might have been in the Oxford eight) on the river. Some of his descriptions of quiet Thames scenery could scarcely be bettered, though they are too gentle for......
A Grand : Old Farmer. , The County Of Berkshire Is
worth special attention at the moment for a prosaic as well as for apoette reason. The latest of the thoughtful and accurate pamphlets issued from the Oxford Agricultural......
Prairie Farms
• The" Baylis barley farms have been peculiarly interesting because almost alongside them lie farms much more extensive, that is, much less intensive ; and on these there is......
Country Life
THE LAUREATE'S COUNTY. There have been greater poets than Dr. Bridges, the dead laureate, to whom a successor has yet to be found ; but some countrymen will be inclined to give......
Yet There Is More Of Berkshire, With Its Woods And
downs and hills and plains, in his verse than of Oxfordshire. You see and even smell certain of its lovelier scenes as you read :— " Summer slept in the fire Of the odorous......
Rivers And The C.p.r.e.
The annual meeting of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England which was on May 1st should mark a very definite stage in this most beneficent and necessary move- ment.......
He Had To Struggle Against Many Difficulties Not Referred To
in the pamphlet. His system of leaving land fallow between the corn crops allowed the weeds a free run for a time, and the spectacle of the weedy fellows so greatly appalled......
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