[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I am obliged to you for helping forward Professor Scott's proposed experiment in Homecrofting. I am not yet convinced that in our climate it can do all that is hoped from it ; but St. George's Guild is most keenly interested in the revival of manual work by a rural population. Ruskin's chief objects were, first to encourage the healthy life of country workers as the appointed task of man needful for the soundness of the British race, and next the ennobling of that life by the graces of charity, faith and beauty. In these directions Homecrofting, if successful, would greatly help us, and nothing can be known without preliminary experiment.
Therefore, though I have not had time to consult my companions, I will make myself responsible on behalf of St. George's Guild for a subscription of £100 on condition of the required sum being completed and the land purchased within the stipulated time.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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