Country Life
"BLACKTHORN winter" is a phrase that remains popular in village speech ; and for good reason. It seldom happens that a frost or two and a biting north-easterly wind do not......
The Immigrants Arrive
The incoming flood of migrant birds continually increases throughout April, but it is the - single spy, making a first appearance, that interests both specialist and the public,......
Purer Rivers ? •
The first of the River Boards came into being last month, on the date of what The Field called " that pleasant anachronism, the opening of the salmon season on the Thames." The......
In The Garden
There seems to be a real chance of the revival of the vineyard in England. It once flourished ; and the isolated vine in the cottage garden was also popular. Why the vine......
The Lawn's Harvest
We begin to cut our lawns with mowing machines, though the dairymen complain of the sad lack of young grass. Now this lawn grass is, or should be, a most useful product. To......
Music
MANY of those who annually attend performances of Bach's Passions are probably unaware of the continued existence of the earliest, anonymous form of Passion-music from which......
Gramophone Notes
THERE is a long list, ranging from the Brahms violin concerto to songs in " Ukrainian " and Welsh. The concerto is magnificently recorded by Menuhin and the Lucerne Festival......
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