COUNTRY LIFE 



THE Journal for all interested in Domestic 

 Architecture and in Country Life & Pursuits 



UNTIL the advent of COUNTRY LIFE, the premier Knglish illustrated 

 paper, few people had realised the treasures possessed by the Old 

 Country in the way of country houses and gardens. In sonic eases 

 even the very owners did not fully know the artistic, architectural 

 and antiquarian value of their own possessions ; and in spite of the exercise of 

 the most fastidious and scrupulous care in selection, the number of old houses 

 possessing instructive and interesting features seems unending. One of the aims 

 of CorXTHY LIFK is to purify and improve taste, and the surest way of doing 

 this is to show what is fine. The houses themselves are often equalled in interest 

 by the wealth of furniture and pictures which they enshrine. The historic mansion 

 is, however, for the few, while there is a great and increasing public which is deeply 

 interested in the &quot; Lesser Country Houses of To-day.&quot; Articles on these and on 

 small houses of yesterday which have been repaired and enlarged to make them 

 suit modern needs appear every week in COUNTRY LIFK. 



Hy this means the public at large becomes acquainted with the best work of 

 the architects of the day who have revived and are carrying to their logical 

 development those building traditions of England, so diverse and full of vitality, 

 which give to each county its distinctive architecture. A study of the articles in 

 COUNTRY LIFK in the two series of &quot;Country Homes and Gardens Old and New 

 and &quot; Lesser Country Houses of To-day will go to establish a truth too long 

 forgotten that Architecture is the Mistress Art. 



The above notes on COUNTRY LIFK, appearing as they do at the end of au 

 architectural book, naturally emphasize that side of its activities. It, is hardly 

 needful to remind readers that the paper, week by week, presents country life in 

 all its aspects and illustrates agriculture, gardening, sport, and natural history 

 with a fulness attempted by no other journal. 



In view of the increasing number of visitors to England from the United 

 States, who take delight in its ancient homes and country pursuits, it is not 

 remarkable that the number of American subscribers to COUNTRY LIFK is 

 increasing by leaps and bounds. 



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