27 OCTOBER 1939, Page 6

How many old trades, I wonder, is the war responsible

for reviving? In Surrey charcoal-burning, which had almost. if not entirely, died out, is being resumed in several wooded areas. But the native art has disappeared, in this part of England at any rate, and Frenchmen and Czecho-Slovaks are being engaged as burners. Elsewhere, I see, a nearly obsolete method of rush-plaiting is returning to vogue for camouflage purposes. And no doubt there are many other such cases. * * * *