COUNTRY LIFE
So many reports by natural history clubs and rural societies for the preservation of this and that amenity are appearing this month that the countryman is likely to be imprisoned indoors by NI con- science in order to read them, and• thus to cut himself off from the sources of his own delight. For instance, the Bureau of Current Affairs has issued a pamphlet, Shaping the Countryside. by Professor Lebon, which might well be read in conjunction with that interesting book England's Green Mantle, by A. G. Tansley, as a help toward a more intelligent grasp of the causes and influences in the shaping of our British scene. What was the origin of our " rolling English roads"; why are we blessed with hedgerows and small fields (many modern- minded farmers would say "cursed" !); what is the future of our country mansions ? Just a handful of questions that can at once set us speculating fruitfully.
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