.Clean Rivers All who call for the purity of our
rivers- should know of the three pamphlets entitled Pollution produced (from 51 Victoria Street) by the Field Sports Society. In general the tale. is shameful.' Peradventure scarcely a stream is quite free from the threat of poison. No single Act— not, I think, mentioned in the pamphlets—has done more good (for the general cause as well as the particular stream) than the injunction secured by Lord Brocket against the distributors of Luton sewage. There are some signs of improvement, though new threats arise. A quality in the pamphlets that pleases me is the excellence of the description of the various rivers, whether they tumble tumultuously from. the Brecon hills or crawl through the plains of Huntingdon and Cambridge. The Ouse, which I happen to know better than any Other river, is described with real geographic skill, and since it avoids any large toner it is one of the purest. Life of all sorts abounds, from the water gentians to the bream. In the campaign for giving the public access to natural scenes, how much more important to the nation are the rivers than the proposed parks ; and how very much less is heard of them! They sadly need what is now called a Public Relations Officer. Does the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries pay any effective attention to them whatever?
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