VILLAGE INDUSTRIES.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1
am favoured by a number of communications from your readers respecting village industries. On the specific points on which they ask advice I will communicate with each of them ; but perhaps you will allow me to say once for all that I propose shortly to issue a series of very practical papers, showing what industries clergymen and others interested in village life can, if they choose, localise in their parishes.
It is my belief that magnificent schemes for creating model communities are impracticable, partly because of the peculiar condition of the land-market in England, and secondly, because I lean very strongly to the conviction that it is beginning at the wrong end -first of all to build model villages, and then find out how the people who are to inhabit them are to live. I think we ought to begin quite at the other end, and teach the residents of the villages, such as we now have them, what is possible under existing conditions, and this is what I hope to do -after the holidays.—I am, Sir, &c., EDITOR, "BRITISH TRADE JOURNAL."
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