1 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 11

Country Life

ENGLISH RIVERS.

Daily for the last week or two I have seen a succession of really pitiful illustrations of the neglect of our English rivers ; and not even the mildest protest is raised against a system that.puts lovely and once valuable streams quite out of com- mission, both as agencies of profit and of pleasure. The public 'accepts what is done as if no change were possible. The truth is that a change is easy ; certainly it is demanded by common sense and decent patriotism.