5 MARCH 1954, Page 25

New Survey of Devon

Devon. By W. G. Hoskins. (New Survey of England, Collins. 42s.) PROFESSOR SIMMONS, the editor of the series, says : " This New Survey of England has two main objects. It is intended in the first place to describe the local history of England as a whole ; and secondly, to give some account of the country as it is today, linking past and present together."