UNKNOWN DORSET. By Donald Maxwell. (.John Lane. 15s.)—This is a
very welconie addition to that delightful sequence of books about the English countryside, the County Series, so many of which Mr. Maxwell has written and illus- trated himself. Perhaps the highest tribute one can pay to Unknown Dorset is to say that it is just as good as are Unknown Sussex and Unknown Kent--exquisite books which every explorer, whether afoot or on wheel, should possess. How well Mr. Maxwell writes, and how rarely provocative are his line and colour illustrations ! Dorset is, of course, a delicious county—Shaftesbury, the Blue Pool at Purbeck, the " sea- forgotten walls " of Wareham, the very names seem to hold some quality of magic in them - but to the present reviewer, at any rate, who thought he knew that corner of England fairly completely, Mr. Maxwell has invested its charmed acres with a new allure and beauty, so that now, more than ever, it does indeed seem to be, or rather, to have been--for here it is discovered—" unknown."
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