To spend a few weeks at a hotel in Falmouth
or St. Ives, and to make excursions by motor or charabanc to the Lizard and the Land's End, is not really to see Cornwall, and Mr. Vulliamy is right in claiming for this much visited peninsula that, except in the vulgar sense, it is still unknown and remains the most " foreign " of all our English counties. Mr. Vulliamy has completely eschewed conventionality and sentimental " gush." There is little description or impressionism in his pages, which, with their excursions into little known byways of history, legend and archaeology, will appeal more to the scholar than to the average tourist. Mr. Simpson, whose acquaintance with Cornwall has been long and intimate, con- " tributes over a hundred illustrations in colour and black-and- white. His range is wide, and, while he has not hesitated to
depict scenes familiar to the holiday-maker, he shows us Cornwall in many moods revealed only to those who have lived within her borders. His pictures of the moors, with their wild bird life, are particularly striking, and there are
some excellent seascapes.
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