The imaginative intervention of Mr. Hugh Macnaghten, the Vice-Provost of
Eton College, has saved the Grand Avenue at Stowe for the school and the public in general. It will be remembered that Mr. Williams-Ellis, the school architect, bought the Avenue at the auction, at which Stowe House itself and the Park were sold, to save it from being cut down for timber. Mr. Williams-Ellis has since been seeking a purchaser who would relieve him or this 'heavy financial burden, and has been happy enough to secure one in Eton College, which, through the agency of Mr. Macnaghten and the funds he has raised from old Etonians, is presenting the Avenue to Stowe School. Thus a great monument of natural beauty is saved, and a very graceful gesture of greeting and recognition is made from a very old and great Public School to the youngest.
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