PREFATORY NOTE 



D Y thanks are due to Ernest Benn and to Faber and 

 sFaber for leave to use a paragraph or two from 

 ipamphlets which they published entitled &quot; The 

 Happy Village &quot; : &quot; Why England Goes Prairie &quot; : and 

 &quot; Why the Land Dies &quot; : and to the Editor of the 

 Countryman, for leave to use a part of my contribution 

 in his series : &quot; Why I live in the Country.&quot; The bulk 

 of the second part of the book appeared in the Observer \ 

 to whose Editor I am very grateful. 



W. BEACH THOMAS 



