28 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 3

Stonehenge has been given to the nation by Mr. C.

H. E. Chubb of Salisbury, who bought it for £6,600 in 1915, at the sale of the Amesbury Abbey estate. Mr. Chubb's generous action satisfies at last the general desire that our most famous prehistoric monument should be in public keeping. After the war, we trust, the unsightly fence which a former owner erected in order to charge gate-money from visitors will be removed. Stonehenge, a national heritage, should be free to all, and it should stand unfettered by modern trivialities as Turner saw it, when he drew that inspired vision of the stones at sunrise in his famous " Liber Studiorum " plate.