17 JANUARY 1958, page 22

Country Life

By IAN NIALL YESTERDAY I watched a small and hungry company of sparrows hard at work devouring the leaves of carnations and pinks in our garden. They were mak- ing the most of a......

Annual Event

'Oh, it's some day that!' exclaimed the old fellow. 'I always go an' wouldn't miss one. Last year. I remember I had hardly paid me money when ole Tom, the traveller for X,......

Tract For The Times

Saint Augustine: The City of God. John Healey's translation, edited by R. G. V. Tasker, introduction by Sir Ernest Barker. (Dent : Everyman's Library, 2 vols., 8s. 6d. each.) IN......

Comment On Music

THIS is' a selection from the fortnightly essays Neville Cardus has contributed to the Manchester Guardian during the last fiveyears or so. Not long ago a similar selection of......

Composite State

Kurds, Turks and Arabs. By C. J. . Edmonds. O .U.P., 42s.) ' THERE are really two books within the covers of this volume, with quite different subjects and appealing to quite......