Painted by J. HARDWICKE LEWIS. Described by S. C. MUSSON.
Containing 24 full-page illustrations in colour and a sketch map. Large crown 8vo., cloth, gilt top. Price 6s. net.
Perhaps the best way to convey some idea of the Engadine to the untravelled Britisher is to describe it as a lofty valley sixty miles in length with a mean altitude as high as Ben Nevis. As may be imagined, the air at this height is most bracing, and the mountain scenery sublime in the extreme. Picturesque villages and lakes dot the valley, and an almost level road runs through its entire length.
Mr. J. Hardwicke Lewis, in his water-colour sketches which are reproduced in this volume, gives us many delightful glimpses of its beautiful scenery. In some we see the valley clothed in its rich summer glory, in others it has donned its winter mantle of snow, and always overlooking it are the solitary mountain-tops where snow and ice are eternal.
Mr. Musson in the text of the book describes the varied scenery of the region, and the chief resorts of the cosmopolitan crowd that gathers there, with incidental notices of its peculiar geology and flora, and a short sketch of its chequered history.
NORTH DEVON.
Painted by HENRY B. WIMBUSH. Described by F. J. SNELL.
Containing 26 full-page illustrations in colour. Large crown 8vo., cloth, gilt top. Price 6s. net.
"Mr. Wimbush has given us twenty-six glimpses of North Devon which are gems.... Mr. Snell has endeavoured to avoid the guide-book style in his descriptive matter, and has succeeded."—Daily News.
SOUTH DEVON.