Description: Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm, 104 pp, several full-page ills by C. F.Tunnicliffe. Country Life is, as I have tried to show in these pages, "the best life in the world," writes Mr. Bates. But what will it be like after the war? The shell of the village community as it used to be is already broken. The self-contained world of the great country house has gone for ever. The church itself, in Mr. Bates's view, is 'near to becoming a spent force' Yet never before have so many people been conscious of the countryside as they are to-day. Already they are demanding plans for rural reconstruction. What kind of plans must they be? It is a big question, and Mr. Bates offers a considered answer. It is his conviction that the country side must not be regarded as "an airtight compartment reserved only for the few." He wants to see town and country ever more closely allied "O more than happy countryman," said Virgil, "if he only knew his good fortune." Still more happy the countryman, adds Mr. Bates, who is big enough to understand, enlarge, improve, protect and share that good fortune with others. He shows himself to be precisely such a man. He has the country man's eye, the countryman's realism, the countryman's faith - and the countryman's sense of humour. And he has put them all into this book." - from the blurb. Edges slightly rubbed, sunned around head of spine, otherwise Good in a used dustwrapper. which is torn with some old tape-repairs.