24 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 3

We congratulate Sir Thomas Acland faille giver, and the National

Trust and the nation as the receivers, of a prinoely gift. Sir Thomas, in whose family public duty, public sympathy, and a liberal mind are the most ancient and most precious of heirlooms, has liven the National Trust a five-hundred-year lease of the most beautiful portion of Exmoor—the noble stretch of moorland which lies under Dunkery Beacon. We hope next week to say more-as to the gift, the manner of the gift, and the example it set% but must at once put on record our sense of the gratitude due to Sir Thomas laid his family. Florcat Damns Aclandi I