Warning of Lost Cultures.

By implication, if not directly, the old school teaching presented the ancient Britons as semisavages. The school child used to imbibe the idea that the Briton, before the Roman came, wore woad and little else. But Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, in “The Listener,” remarks that “it has long since been proved that the ancient Britons were a highly cultured people. Youths from Gaul were sent to study at British universities, and the Druidic triads are the oldest literature in the oldest living language in the world. British craftsmen were taken to Rome to teach the art of enamelling, and there is every reason to believe that the citizens of London, Winton, and Caerleon-on-Usk were citizens of no mean cities.” If early British culture could be so long lost sight of in Britain, there must have been other cultures that vanished, leaving no record save such ruins as are seen in Yucatan, in Rhodesia, and—perhaps strangest of all—on Easter Island.