Shorter Notices
The Dartmoor Scene. By Kenneth F. Day. (Muller. 7s. 6d.) A bock on Dartmoor could hardly choose a better time for its appearance than this, when the whole future of the moor is in jeopardy, the military laying violent hands on it, and fighters for the amenities waging unequal conflict against the depredation. This, in fact, is a book of pictures, showing better than any letterpress could what Dartmoor is. Mr. Day has preferred intensive to extensive study. He has never allowed his camera to range-beyond an area of a few square miles between Postbridge and Two Bridges. Every- thing worth photographing there, and everything that could be photographed from there, is here recorded. The result in some cases is slight over-concentration. Longaford Tor, for example, is more studied from every angle than is good for any for ; and if Cranmore Pool is to be reckoned within the radius so might such a landmark as Great Mis Tor be. And if Believer Tor is admitted, as of course it rightly is, it would hardly have been stretching a point to have spared a film for Believer Bridge with its broken clapper. But, of course, Mr. Day is fully justified in following his own bent, and his fifty or sixty photographs make a collection which even those who know the moor little or not at all will find singularly attractive.
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