29 OCTOBER 1927, Page 35

There is no end to the activity of Major Gordon

Home's informing pen and artistically industrious pencil, and once again the skill of both is displayed in Edinburgh (Black). How the publishers can produce a comely book like this for three half-crowns is a marvel. Here " Edina high in heaven wan, waited upon by hills " is pictured for us in twenty-four full- page reproductions of pencil drawings, the delicate charm and strength of which are instant in their appeal. Of particular beauty, as well as of architectural and historic interest, are the plates of John Knox's house in the steep-pitched High Street, the south aisle of St. Giles's Cathedral, and the quaint knot of buildings that fill the end of Bakehouse Close in the Canongate. The text is worthy of the illustrations.

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