TUE OLD VILLAGE.
The difference between to-day and yesterday in country Villages is startling to all older countrymen who have any memory ; but I do not think I ever realized the contrast quite so saliently as Alice Catherine Day, whose Glimpses of Rural Life in Sussex During the Last Hundred Years have just been issued--in paper covers, 2s. 6d. net—from the Village Press, Idbury, Kingharn, Oxford. Her family lived for several hundred years on Hadlow Down ; and she has been at pains to interview all the nonagenarians—and they are many—of the neighbourhood. The book consists of jottings and notes, and has no great literary merit ; but as a social record it has real value ; and I should like to emphasize one particular virtue for the edification of land theorists.
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