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PLACED as he is in the most immediate dependence on Nature for his livelihood, the farmer watches the weather with a concern that town-dwellers can hardly realize. Modem meteorology has done much to read its secrets for him, and in this talk Sir Napier Shaw will describe the objects of the conference of agricultural meteorologists from all over the Empire, which is shortly to be held.

IN Paradise Adam gardened for his own pleasure ; it was only after the Fall that he was compelled to dig in the earth and earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. So throughout the ages gardening has been primarily a hobby-an affair of old clothes and pottering about, after the day's work, or the work of a lifetime is done. Colonel
Durham is Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, but even that official body recognizes the true inwardness of gardening, as is shown by the appropriateness of the title that he has chosen for his talk tonight.

KENNETH ELLIS (Bass)
MELSA (Violin)
THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
PUGNANI was one of the foremost violinists of the age which succeeded Tartini, whose most famous pupil ho was. He is regarded as having carried on the fine traditions of Corelli and Tartini, and as handing them on to the succeeding age of which a leading light was his own pupil Viotti. He composed much, although very little of his own music has survived except such occasional pieces as this ; Kreisler has arranged it as a very effective solo.
ALTHOUGH some of de Falla's later music is already better known to us in this country, it was his opera, La Vida Breve, which first won him recognition in his native Spain as well as abroad.
This dance from the opera is already too well known to need description: it lends itself well to separate performance and demands no knowledge of the whole work for its enjoyment. Vivid rhythm is characteristic of it, as it is of all the true music of Spain.

THE art of letter writing, we are constantly being told, is dying fast. Telegrams, telephones and modern transport have killed it. Certainly the social history of this age, when it comes to be written, will not be illumined by those graceful letters whose very turn of phrase is witty, with which our ancestors crossed and crossed again their paper before it was sanded, folded and sealed, and entrusted to the courier who would carry it down miry roads and across desolate heaths to convey the news of the town to some lonely country house. But even today letter writing is still indulged in to a limited extent, and after all, by the time they write the social history of our age, they will probably admire even our limited capacity, for in those days even the conventional ' Writing' at the end of the telegram will have passed away.

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