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THE practice of letting country houses to American visitors is growing, and with judicious management it is, I believe, capable of considerable expansion. Those of my-American friends who have taken houses in England since the War have much enjoyed their stay here. They have liked this intimate insight into English country life, especially so where the owners' domestic staff has re- mained during the tenancy. In the Dearborn Independent a writer describes the " enjoyable .vacation " he balls last year when he took an English country house.. Surely it should. be possible to organize some kind. of Country tHouse Exchange whereby the British owners of country houses who want to let them would be enabled to get in touch with well-to-do Americans who want to spend their summer holidays here. The exchange would have to be efficiently run and its American clients would have to be satisfied that only houses in a suitable state of repair and with modern comforts would be offered.
• * St. Gaudens made all the best-known statues and plaques of Robert Louis Stevenson now in England or Scotland. He is also famous for his statue of Abraham Lincoln, his statue of Sherman in New York, and his bas relief to the black troops of the North who f5ught the American Civil War. -
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