16 MARCH 1929, Page 3

* * * - We publish, among Letters to the

Editor, an appeal from the National Trust for the remaining £9,000 neces- sary for the protection of Stonehenge. The northern approach is in danger of being defiled by the speculative builder, and since the grandeur of Stonehenge depends largely upon its silhouetting against the sky, and upon the austerity of its setting on the plain, we feel that our readers will appreciate the urgency of this appeal. Stonehenge is not merely a thing of beauty which must be saved from intolerable neighbours, but is a unique memorial to an ancient civilization.