English Estates.

I WOULD like to start an appeal to generate money for the landed families of this country to wrest control of all the estates in the hands of the National Trust. I feel sadness when I walk through the tourist conga lines of these beautiful but prostituted buildings, designed to be inhabited in the kind of style which only generational eminence can justify, now full of cordoned areas and placards like a museum. Why will not the Duke of Westminster shave some of the cream off his gold top milk and restore the gentry to their rightful homesteads? Why cannot the wealthy to-day build like this, what happened to patronage?