A B.B.C. SUCCESS.
Intellectual achievements by the English villages have surprised and delighted at least one of the speakers who have broadcast to the rural schools. At the same time a B.B.C. experiment has been justified by results. Therefore on April 26th will be continued .a series of lectures, accom- panied by experimental work among the listeners. Mr. Keen, of Rothamsted, who has been the chief pioneer, speaks on farming, and on botany and biology connected with the farm ; and at the same time, both by voice and by aid of little printed pamphlets, directs definite laboratory experiments. The scheme has worked surprisingly well, and has an expansive future ; but perhaps for the moment the chief triumph, has been to extract from village school- boys valuable information about the agricultural history of their locality, as evidenced by such relics as balk divisions between fields. To my view we have never had a form of education so well calculated as this to inspire local curiosity and interest children in the tale of their own parish.
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