Black Plover

Amusement was caused some while ago in the House of Commons as outside by the appearance of " black plover "—a bird that does not exist—on the menu. This phrase seems to have......

Country Life

AT Oxford some while ago a more or less individual enquiry was set afoot into the vagaries of our population of four-footed animals. Some quaint results were reached especially......

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Music

Two works by Stravinsky, new as far as this country is concerned, would have made an eventful week twenty years ago, but even his warmest admirers must admit that there is every......

In The Garden Has Anyone Explained How It Comes About

that the winter-flowering shrubs, which are seldom visited by insects, are peculiarly sweet-scented? A single bough of Chimomanthus, or winter-sweet, scents the whole room in......

A Village Regret All Country People, Especially Perhaps...

population, regret the disappearance of the great country house and its park. It added as nothing else could to many . amenities, and was essentially a common possession. Its......

Art

A ROOMFUL of Ardizzones is a pleasant relaxation. His peeps through the keyhole, round the plush curtain in the pub at the man in the bowler hat, over the gate with the two old......