Country Life
A GREAT NEW SANCTUARY.
Half the world has thanked the author of San Michele for the effectual fervency of his plea for the birds of Capri, now dedicated under the order of the Duce—nil desperanduin Teucro Duce et auspice Teucro. We owe a similar debt to an act that had a somewhat similar inspiration. One of the most original and genuine books of descriptive travel written for a long time is Mr. John Still's Jungle' Tide. A good part of it concerned the great forest of Adams Hill, in Ceylon. It is known as the Holy Mountain, which should mean a place where no one hurts or destroys. That is what it will mean henceforth. Mr. Still made the suggestion, made a per- suasive plea that the Holy Mountain should become a great sanctuary for wild life of any and every sort. His plea has been greeted and granted. The Buddhist Sinhalese Minister of Lands has just proclaimed the hill and fore3t sanctuary. The news came to me in a letter which almost in phrase re- called the thanksgiving of the author of San Michele : "Now I have to tell you a thing that pleases me more almost than anything that ever happened." By such stages approaches the millennium.
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