Landscapism was not to be confined to a purely aesthetic debate; a veritable science of landscapism, the science of objective space par excellence, university geography, took form during the era of the Parnassians.

Although the programme was built round the Bon Dance, it was nevertheless a motley farrago with three main divisions: post-war Japanese dances came first; then, something billed as 'folk-dances'—we had gone expecting the gems of this tradition-lovin district but we found ourselves watching instead something which, from the dancers' steps as well as from the music, might well have been a cross between a square dance and a Gay Gordons!

It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.

I saw the pair of them chinwagging by the water-cooler.