Rural Crafts Those Jeremiahs who lament the extinction of our
rural craftsmen have neglected to notice the really solid successes of the revised and enlarged Rural Industries Bureau, whose Youth's Opportunity in the Countryside (35 Camp Road, Wimbledon, price 6d.) is a very cheery document. Of course, craftsmen are lamentably few in some places and in some trades. More lamentably still, the country is suffering from the lack of shepherds and their like, owing in part to the dislike—fostered by urban factory workers—of irregular hours. Nevertheless, when all is said, new crafts are coming into being as old diminish and the twenty-three travelling instructors of the Bureau are kept more than busy in regard to a score or more of rural crafts. Wales excels England in the variety of its handywork ; and when next year the Royal Agricultural Show is held at Shrewsbury east and west will meet in an exceptional display of rural crafts.
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