The general question of preserving the countryside is dis- cussed
with particularly incisive wisdom in the current number of that invaluable little green quarterly, The Countryman, which may be called the Intelligence Bureau of Country Life. It is edited from an old manor house dominating a tiny hamlet in North Oxfordshire, a place still singularly remote from the "mutations and unrest" of urban life ; and the quiet wisdom of the deep, deep country finds a home there. The editor and proprietor has the rare opportunity of practising what he preaches ; he can get houses built while he is urging the need. Perhaps it may be inferred that the "Solomon Wiseacre," who writes the constructive article to which I refer is identical with the author of "England's Green and Pleasant Land," where the need of good cottages was expressed, with knowledge and force, if sometimes with excessive bitterness.
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