Country Life
THE NEw VILLAGE.
The village, especially the English village, is one of the only social units that may be said to have a soul of its own ; and it must be good for England that it should have a new lease of life. Signs are multiplying that this consummation is on the way. Something was said the other week of the most effectual work of the Oxford Community Council, and of Somerset, Nottingham and Hampshire organizers. This week is published a sheet called simply and effectively "The Village." It is to be issued quarterly by the Hertfordshire Society, in which is included the work of the community council and now, incidentally, of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. I may perhaps be allowed to say that I put my own philosophy of the village, with some account of a parti- cular village (Hamerton in Huntingdonshire), into a little paper-covered book (The Happy Village, Benn, Is.) ; and some of the hopes—they were hardly prophecies—there expressed are being realized at a rate of progress rapid and consistent beyond all expectation.
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