Country Life
ARE our open and close seasons wisely and humanely designed? The Iluestion, which often occurs, is, of course, unanswerable, for the seasons vary by large margins. Last year......
Music
THE New Era Concert Society, a non-profit-making society founded in order to bring music of the highest order within the reach of everyone, gave its first concert on January......
Art
Tins week I have seen exhibitions by a Sinhalese monk, a Parisian, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century water-colourists and a group of unknown youngsters. In such circumstances......
Scout Fires A Most Attractively Illustrated Card Has Been...
for Boy Scouts on the perennial subject of firewoods, and fires are given three divisions: kindling, quick and slow. The slow or continuous fire is the one which chiefly......
The Worst Weeds If A Vote Were Taken For The
most offensive of weeds, that perennial " kex " (called by some ground elder, by some " the alder-weed," by some gout-weed, by some bishop's-weed and by learned botanists......
In The Garden
With me snowdrops were out about mid-January, coinciding with the blossoms of the Algerian iris, and almost at the same date the hazel male catkins began to distribute pollen......