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!

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

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

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.