Country Life
HOPE FOR THE THAMES.
A book of quite a new sort has just been published by a happily complemental triumvirate.• One is Lord Mayo, who, besides his other artistic qualities, has a genius for photo- graphy. With him are Professor Adshead, the Rennie of our days, and Professor Abercrombie, who is almost the author and begetter of regional planning, in which lies the one hope for rural England. They have enrolled powerful assessors. First Lord Astor, whose home at Cliveden is the crown of the Thames valley, and he himself is one of the few who think in terms of the future ; then Mr. Buchan whose Oxfordshire home has inspired him to a grip of the history of the Thames worthy of Puck of Pook's Hill. The origin of the book and the sequels it will lead to are worth every Englishman's atten:. tion ; and of these, not of the book itself, I would write in this place. For as Goethe said in Faust, " In the beginning was the Deed," and this is a book that emerges from action and will ensue it.
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