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One characteristic of Indian rugs is a lattice with a formal arrang - ment of floral sprays in each com-

... symbolism was lost sight of and the device became merely convenient ornamental motifs. Perhaps the symboli m is fresher, so to speak, in the Chinese carpets where the stork stand for longevity, the duck for conjugal felicity, the bat for happiness, and the ...

Published: Monday 25 December 1950
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2019 | Page: 95 | Tags: none

OVERSTEER ~

... the back tyre pressure, even as little as 2 lbs. per square inch, will assist in red ucing over-steer. Although strictly speaking it does not come specifications, that with a streamlined body will be much the most economical to run. Before the war tests ...

Published: Monday 25 December 1950
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 494 | Page: 144 | Tags: none

in Love in a Village (Fig. 6) is one of the most delightful and charming paintings in the whole collection

... scene. It but portray this great actor and mimic in action, as he comes in to the room. It is not even neces ary for him to speak, and one know' that all he will do is to put down the pewter candlestick and dre ing box upon the table. This is a fair sample ...

Published: Monday 25 December 1950
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2116 | Page: 86 | Tags: none

Winter holidays cheaper!

... she is married to one; modern movements in painting and writing; the deficiencies of county grammar schools, of which she speaks with authority, being on the governing body of one of them ; the value of classics in education-on such matters she has much ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1894 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

REQU IRED TO PURCHASE

... telephone. Why don't you come to the Cavendish sometime ?-it's only li hours from Victoria. Just phone Eastbourne 2740 and ask to speak to the Manager- Mr. P. Churchman. (Proprietors: Pimm's Ltd.) From the excellent fare served in the restaurant facing the sea ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 15850 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

WIVES OF FAMOUS AUTHORS

... telephone. Why don't you come to the Cavendish sometime ?-it's only li hours from Victoria. Just phone Eastbourne 2740 and ask to speak to the Manager- Mr. P. Churchman. (Proprietors: Pimm's Ltd.) From the excellent fare served in the restaurant facing the sea ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1153 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

COU N TRY LIFE - JANUARY 1 2. 1 9 51 CLASSIFIED ANNOUNCEMENTS CONNOISSEURS AND COLLECTORS WANTED 1 !~~~-;;~~t ..

... Interested In fine china and glass. Tel.: GRO. 3273 and REG. 4345 6. C L tENTS who have sold us Entire Libraries or Rare Editions speak highly of our valuation . Immediate payment and removaL-Telephone: THE BEAUCHAMP BOOKSHOP, LTD .. Ken. 6904, and ask fot· Mr ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4168 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

G OVER MENT CRITICISED

... cacle, which yet is but a capability, that is to say, a possibility, a feature to be developed; and it was Brown's habit of speaking of the capability of a landscape over which he was about to wave hi wand that earned him the name. It was so deeply established ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3526 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

G. B. S., THE GUARDJ~D

... had to be guarded, and when he appeared he was not communicati,·e. li e would not speak at meals, and h w ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1854 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

darkness has been a con tant menace in the final, and, as is well known,Wethered and Storey, being still locked

... went on for some considerable distance beyond the 19th before Martin won (I was in bed and did not see them), and, generally speaking, there has b en a continual rush of ghoulish persons who interrupt their drinks or their tea to go and gloat over a This ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 500 | Page: 46 | Tags: none

THE GLACIERS OF LAKELAND

... been several in the course of the earth's history, but the only one of present interest is the one which ended, geologically speaking, on the evening of the day before yesterday. Although we are still in the dark about the cause of the cold, we do know that ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3549 | Page: 29 | Tags: none