The Walking-stick Maker
• In he walked one evening with a stride that shook our glasses, carrying under his sinewy arm a bundle of what looked like triune hybrids of walking stick, mitre and shepherd's......
Country Life
I HAVE an old friend who is one of the most sagacious, conversant and far-seeing of English farmers. He lives in a long-fronted William-and- Mary house under the North Downe,......
Rules' For Adoption
Frankenburg writes about one hindrance to adoption ; I should like to draw attention to another. A friend and I. both unmarried and sharing a house, decided a short time ago, to......
In The Garden The Year Is Unprecedented ; A Festival
of garden closes after the Stygian winter as though Proserpine had escaped from Pluto to become Perdita, a celebration of prodigality of which the gardener is witness only. Let......
A Friend Of Art
SIR,—Knowin g that the publication of obituary notices is not your general practice, I. should be deeply grateful were you able to print this short tribute to Cecil Phillips,......
The Kentish Weald
This incident in little had for its setting the diversity and fecundity of the Kentish Weald. Swards mown, rather than postures cropped, by Kentish sheep that also cast splashes......
44 A Day Of Siege !!
SIR,—Mr. Carter and readers of his article A Day of Siege will doubtless be interested to know that children of all ages still play in the sun at St. George's Bay, and in fact I......
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