18 OCTOBER 1902, Page 3

On Thursday the Princess Louise performed the ceremony of dedicating

a mile of foreshore on Lake Derwentwater to public use and enjoyment for ever. We congratulate the National Trust most heartily upon having thus secured public access to one of the most beautiful of the English lakes, and having made so notable an addition to that splendid gallery of natural pictures which they are collecting for the delight and enjoyment of the nation. The colours in Derwentwater and on Cat Bells will never fade, nor need the Trust fear the decay of canvas or the chemical changes in varnish. The more they leave the picture to Nature, the better it will be.