Evening star., 1925-09-05
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY the BooktoCer.

for the traveller who can spend but a
i short time in Europe. The distances
are short, so that not much time need
| be wasted on railway trains, and
many motor trips are possible. But to
| the traveller by book, distances are
| endless, for books without number
| have been written about this small
| but most important section of the
| world. A delightful tour for one who
| has already visited London, the uni
versity centers and the Shakespeare
! country is to visit the chief cathedral
towns and coach or motor through
Devonshire and Cornwall, the York
| shire moorS and other parts of rural
England. A book on the English ca
thedrals published some years ago,
but still one of the best, is Mrs.
! Schuyler Van Rensselaer's English
ICathedrals," illustrated with 154 draw
! ing by Joseph Pennell. Twelve cathe-
| drals are treated, both architecturally
and acknowledgements Peter
borough, Durham, Salisbury, Lich-
! field, Lincoln, Ely, Wells. Winchester,
! Gloucester, York and st. Paul's in
| London. Cathedral Cities in Eng
| land, by George Gilbert, illustrated
! in color by w. w. Collins, covers the
same cathedrals, with the addition of
! Oxford st. Adams, Worcester, Chich-
ester, Chester, Rochester, Ripon,
| Hereford, Bath, Exeter, Norwich and
| Westminster in London.
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A section of the Yorkshire moors,
rich in literary associations as well as
scenery, is described in Elizabeth
| Southwart's "Bronte Moors and VII
! lagos From Thornton to Haworth." :"
| "The Bronte country from Thornton
H.. i H..
| and rocks and yawning quarrieS; of
harshly outlined fields, with the re-
| lentless moors creeping up to their
| black walls, waiting for the first mo-
ment of forgetfulness to take back
what has been wrung from them" 4"
J At Thornton Village are the ruins of
the Old Bell Chapel, where Patrick
| Bronte preached and where Mrs.
Bronte and her children sat and shiv-
| cred among the stone pillars. There
| also is the old parsonage where Char
lotte, Emily, Anne and Bramwell
Bronte were born. Thornton Hall is
! perhaps the original of Thornfield
! Hall in Jane Eyre" At Haworth is
| another Bronte parsonage and the
! church which contains the tombs Of
Charlotte and Emily. Across from the
! church is the Black Bull Inn, the
haunt of the unfortunate Bramwell.
4 one may SIEOlI across the I1OOTS 10
| the Bronte waterfall, one of the IA
| vorite walks of the sisters, and to
/ Ponden House. probably the original
! of Emily's ''Wuthering Heights" and
! Wycoller Hall, the Ferndean manor
| of Jane Eyre" OF the influence of
/ the moor country on the Bronte sis
| ters Elizabeth Southwark says: I'VE
| do not know how much of their wild
! surroundings went TO the molding of
+! their genius, but we do know that the
/ spirit of this country, which was there
before the Brontes came to it, found
| these frail-bodied sisters in Haworth
| parsonage, clear eyed, sensitive and
passionate. and used them for its in
| terpreters
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Highways and Byways in Devon
| and Cornwall" by Arthur Norway,
with illustrations by Joseph Pennell
and Hugh Thomson. tempts us to
/ Southwestern England. where there
| is a combination of bold, rocky coast,
| hills, forest and heath with wealth
! of history and romance. Exeter is the
/ capital of Devon and seat of one of
! England's beautiful smaller cathe-
drals. 1t is a center for tours through
the Lorna Doone' country and through
| the Dartmoor of Eden PhillpottS' nov
| els. Mr.. Norway calls Clovelly "the
most exquisite town in England" +" with
| it's narrow street which drops down
| the hillside between high-peaked and
! gabled houses and humber slated cot
| tages with deep bow windows and
| diamond panes and the fresh red
/ brown Virginia creeper trailing
| over them" IlfracOmbe is now too
much of a resort, but is very beauti-
! full. nesting "in a deep hollow among
! lofty tors, so bumped and twisted that
| they seem to be still heaving from
| the impact of some huge subterranean
conVulsion." The author, like many
/ of us, better enjoys country rambling
| than city jostling. so he devotes much
| space TO the valleys of the Exc and
! Dart and the harbors at their mouths.
| Also, being a CorniShman. he cher
| ishes a conviction that the relation
! of DeVonshire to Cornwall is that Of
| the anteroom to the presence cham
/ Der, or the hors d'oeuvres to the ban
! quet" 1t is over the jagged crests,
| the purple moors and ancient dolmens
! and cromlechs of Cornwall that he
| becomes really eloquent. The one in
| land lake of Cornwall, Il lonely tarn,
| is that from which King Arthur re-
: ceived his magic sword. EXcalibur,
/ and into which Sir Bedivere threw the
1 sword at Arthur's death. Through
/ a long and winding village into a ra-
/ vine, which falls steep and narrow
! toward the sea- we approach Tin
| tagel, where are the ruins of King
| Arthur's castle The Lizard PENN
| sula is almost. if not quite, the wild
| est and most solitary district in Corn
wall" 1t has been the scene of many
! shipwrecks and much smuggling and
! piracy THE charm of the Lands
| End itself is one of mere idea. The
! cliffs are neither so lofty nor so beau
/ tiful as at many other points. The
! charm of mere idea is a great charm
! however, and we are glad to end our
| tour of Cornwall with the most west
| erly point of land in England.