Pilgrimages to Old Homes. By Fletcher Moss. Third Series. (The
Author, Didsbury. 41 1.5. net.)—Our readers are probably acquainted with Mr. Moss's work. He has already published records of his journeyings and of their results. For ourselves, we must allow that he is a little too humorous for our taste. He goes, for instance, to Glastonbury, and makes what must be meant for a joke about its being "the summer seat of the Anglo:- Saxons [Somersaetas]." But he takes much pains with his subjects, reads up the literature that concerns them, goes to see them, regards them sympathetically, and supplies us with some excellent photographs. His wanderings, as described in this volume, are in the West Country, reaching ‘ip to Cheshire in the North. Not the least pleasing of the "pilgrimages" is one which has not cost the pilgrim much pains,—" The Old Parsonage" from which he writes, and which has suggested, it seems, to some of his critics, that he has a clerical status.
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