20 APRIL 1951, page 13

Pity For The Farmer Leaving These Solitary Pleasures, And...

with the local farmers, I hear a chorus of woe. One tells me that the high wind a few nights ago lifted and capsized a house containing day-old chicks. Twenty pounds went west......

Cinema

“Teresa." (Empire.)--“Tom Brown's Schooldays." (Gaumont.) ---“Circle of Danger." (Odeon, Marble Arch.) THE story of Teresa is not a particularly original one, dealing as it does......

In The Garden

The laying down of a new asparagus bed has been the pride of the week, for this is one of those long-term plans come to action, and great care has to be taken in every detail. I......

Music

THAT Sadler's Wells should have put on Janacek's Katya Kabanova is a triumph of initiative over routine. The virtues of this opera are entirely musical ; its disadvantages many......

Art

THE British Museum' has brought out a really splendid show of Turner water-colours and backed them up with some of the choicest things by his contemporaries. If Agnew's recent......

Country Life

RETURNING from a journey to Edinburgh which had occupied two nights in the train and a full and busy day I was again reminded of what a distinguished naturalist said to me......

The Microscopic Eye Thus On My Return I Have Been

sensibly sharpened in my observation of the tiny events that are always crowding the local acres. In this mood of self-welcome home I have watched the flight of the green......