The Preservation of Places of Interest and Beauty. By Sir
Robert Hunter. (Manchester University Press. 6d. net.)—This lecture contains a strong indictment of the neglect with which an important matter has been treated, and, what is not less to the purpose, a useful suggestion of what may yet be done. The Stonehenge affair ought to have wakened us up. It might, of course, have been worse ; but in no other civilised country could such a thing have happened. There should be no delay in tabu- lating a register of the "places of interest" which it concerns the nation to preserve. It would be well if, as Sir Rebut Hunter recommends, there should be made one register for national and a second for local "remains," There are many such survivals of the past of which few people know much, and which might perish almost unobserved. Some one, for instance, might use the Stone Circle at callernish, in the island of Lewis, for building a cottage, and ne ene know anything about it till the miechief had been done. Sir Robert adds the text of the French law of bat year, " Organimust la Protection des Sites et Monuments Naturals de Carsetere Artistique."
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