Anybody who comes to Stone-hange just now in a fortunate hour may see a wonderful sight, says a special correspondent to 'The! Times." He may sec the linted stone of one of the mighty trilithons, swathed in timbers and gripped in the clutch of @ crane, dangling' in mid air over its two! pillars. Then, gently, it sinks back to its place, where till now it has) rested undisturbed for nearly 4,000 years This is not the first time that! work of this kind has been done at Stonehenge. Nineteen years] ago the greatest stone of them all, the splendid survivor of the Great' Trilithon, was leaning even more dangerously, and must some day have crashed down by the side of its prostrate brother that lies in two pieces on the turf, broken at' the heart, This leaning stone was) set upright again, and now the, Office of Works, in association with the Society of Antiquaries, is restoring to a position of safety other of the stones that are in danger. One need not be a very bigoted) Conservative to feel on first hearing! of them some mistrust of such operations, On the other hand, when once one has been to Stone-hange to see the work one would, have to be very bigoted indeed to deny that it is really necessary, and is being done reverently and carefully with a determination neither to add nor substract anything.
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