THE COUNTRY-LIFE MOVEMENT
IN THE UNITED STATES
The Rural Outlook Set
THE OUTLOOK TO NATURE (Revised)
THE NATURE-STUDY IDEA
THE STATE AND THE FARMER
THE COUNTRY-LIFE MOVEMENT
The
Country-Life Movement
in the United States
BY
L. H. BAILEY
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1911,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1911.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO
Charles W. Garfield
—SEER OF VISIONS, PROPHET OF THE
BETTER COUNTRY LIFE—
I dedicate this budget
of opinions
CONTENTS
Pages 1-3
It is not a back-to-the-land movement, 1—This book, 2.
Pages 4-13
A transition period, 6—The Commission on CountryLife, 7—The three fundamental recommendations of theCommission, 9—A national conference of country life, 12—Avoluntary movement, 12—The international phase, 13.
SOME INTERRELATIONS OF CITYAND COUNTRY
Pages 14-30
Some contrasts of town folk and country folk, 14—Comparisonsof town and country affairs, 16—The two minds,17—...