14 MAY 1927, Page 13

A Couyinv QUARTERLY.

The appearance of the Countryman, " a quarterly Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Progress," is something of an event. Mr. Robertson Scott, who edit: and publishes it from the deep, deep country (Idham, Hingham, Oxford), is quite without a rival in some departments of country life. No one has succeeded so well as he in correlating and presenting accumulated facts ; and when all is said he has always thought first of the human and personal side. His quarterly, as we should expect and hope, is to be concerned chiefly with the welfare of the men and women who live on the land. The first number is bright, various and even amusing ; and altogether free (one is glad to see) from political bias. The editor in underlining the claims of those three most lovely villages, Bibury, Broadway and Chipping Campden, makes a particular plea that "every reader who can spare a guinea to be an associate " should join the C.P.R.E. May this most original quarterly flourish and cure many urban minds of a wrong bias 1 W. Beacu TuotsiLts.