Too POPULAR SANCTUARIGs.
One rather surprising evidence of the eagerness to taste the pleasure of country things is the embarrassing demand made to guards and owners of sanctuaries for leave to enter. If half such requests were granted by the trustees of one at least of the better known bird sanctuaries, it would entail the employment of half a dozen extra men, and destroy much of the value of the reserve. Recent refusals of leave to enter have given a certain amount of offence. but they were abso- lutely necessary if the sanctuary was to fulfil its main purpose. What is Wanted is something in the nature of national parks, where freedom of entrance and movement is qualified by reservations of small areas. There is one admirable example outside--Leicester. Hawksmoor, in Staffordshire, is another. It is just the sort of place where the tripper, so called, can wander and enjoy the true country without doing injury to its spirit,
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