At the annual meeting of the National Trust for Places
of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty on Thursday the sug- gestion, already made in these columns, that the National Trust should, if possible, acquire and preserve for all time an unspoilt English village was received with no small favour. The Princess Louise, who is President of the Trust and has done an enormous amount to help on its work, stated that she knew a beautiful village of exactly the kind required. Where the ideal village was she very prudently refused to say, but it is a matter for rejoicing that the Princess is thus evidently interesting herself so greatly in the scheme that some owner of a beautiful village may be willing to add it to the gallery of woods, waters, wastes, manor houses, ruined castles, and wide landscapes which already belong to the National Trust.
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