RURAL ENGLAND.
It is a most fortunate accident for those who care forEnglish landscape that Sir Hilton Young has won the ballot for his bill in defence of the preservation of rural England. What Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis calls the Octopus is extending its greedy feelers everywhere, in Wales and in Scotland, as well as in England. A vital battle is now being fought round Strat- ford-on-Avon. The progress of it is very fully described in the latest issue of the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald from which I receive a particular request that London will help them in this local battle. And the battle is not really- local. It concerns all England. I see that Mr. Hilton Young especially empha- sizes the sanctity of trees ; and it is the wholesale destruction of trees, especially urged in the catalogue of the sale of November 22nd, that is likely to ruin the Warwick Road, the one unspoilt approach to Stratford. The question is the salvation of a piece of incomparable scenery, as dear to un-British pilgrims as to the English.
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