Cheerful Yesterdays

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 15

Cheerful Yesterdays

"ONE of the great New Zealand books" is the eulogistic reference made by Sir Arthur Donnelly in his Book Shop review of Cheerful Yesterdays, the autobiography of the late Mr, Justice Alpers. This programme is scheduled for broadcast from YA and YZ stations during the fortnight March 3 to March 16. The Judge’s autobiography is an interesting and amusing book, according to Sir Arthur Donnelly, whose own talk fits the same pattern of literary style. A reprint, Cheerful Yesterdays, in its latest edition includes

4 two drawings of Mr, Justice Alpers by a former pupil of his-David Low, And it is as a pupil and court confrere of Mr. Justice Alpers that Sir Arthur Donnelly is able to review his former master’s autobiography with such warmth and understanding of what the book reveals. Whereas Book Shop usually consist of one or two short talks as well as the review, this issue contains only Sir Arthur Donnelly’s talk. Sir Arthur has been Crown Solicitor in Christchurch since 1920. 5 Landseape Layout LAWN here and a few trees there, flower bed this side and the path that side-it all seems easy enough, but if anyone has ever looked. greenly at someone else’s garden they might do well to listen to Mary Lysaght’s series of talks, Landscape Architecture. No dabbler in mere garden planning, Miss Lysaght has studied the entire field of landscape architecture, and was recently abroad furthering her knowledge of the subject. In the Scandinavian countries Miss Lysaght found that in general landscape architecture is considered essential to the correct lay-out of any constructional undertaking, and in these talks she shows how any work connected with the earth, from a seaside section to open-cast coalmining, can be improved by careful planning. Landscape architecture is described briefly by Miss Lysaght as "the conscious arrangement of the landscape for man’s use and enjoyment," and in these six talks, the first of which was heard from 1YA on Monday, February 25, during Feminine Viewpoint, and which will continue weekly from the same station, she shows how this is possible. .