New Year : Old Japan
THE boats are resting along the shore, There's not one fisherman on the beach. The sea flows quietly ; quietly pour Pale , sunlights out of the clouds. On each Unpainted boat as......
Island Birds The Isle Of May In The Firth Of
.Forth is earning very high dividends as a bird observatory. Some months ago a visitor sent me a realty marvellous account of the rarities seen there during his short visit. It......
Music
IT is a comparatively recent discovery, for all but scholars, that much of the admired grace, elegance and charm of Mozart is not so much his own as that of his century. His......
Protective Man A Pretty Little Story Of An Animal Seeking
sanctuary comes to me from a country rectory. The rector, standing by the front door of his Sussex house, heard his terrier giving tongue, and presently round a corner of the......
Gi Thereby Hangs "
It is surprising how little fuss has been made over the abolition of tail-docking. Since November 24th last, horses and ponies must be accorded the satisfaction of flicking off......
Gramophone Notes
ORCHESTRAL. Of three Haydn symphonies the London, played by the L.P.O., under Joseph Krips, is by far the best, though the slow movement is too fast for my taste (Decca). The......
In The Garden
It has been claimed that February is much the best time for giving your raspberries plenty of potash ; and therefore February is the time for the garden bonfire. This is one of......
Country Life
COUNTRY folk in most, perhaps all, counties are wondering sadly what is to be the fate of their larger country houses. They cannot all, like a famous Herefordshire house, be......
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