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DR. CORNISH here presents to us the beauty of England in a succession of charming word-pictures from his rich store of personal impressions of the many types of landscape which the country affords, including the Lakes, the Peak, the Fens, the Cotswolds, Dartmoor, the New Forest, the Dorset coast, Wiltshire downs and many other parts. This, in a book of so modest a compass, should be a more effective method of rousing public interest in the work of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England than a more categorical description of the country, county by county, or district by district. Dr. Cornish throughout lays stress on the importance of making buildings harmonise with the landscape, and he concludes with appendixes on the aims and objects of tile Council and powers and duties of affiliated local authorities.
The Scenery of England: a Study of Harmonious Grouping in Town and Country.
By Dr. Vaughan Cornish. Pp. 125 + 8 plates. (London: The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, 1932.) 3s. 6d. net.
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W. B, L. The Scenery of England: a Study of Harmonious Grouping in Town and Country . Nature 130, 760 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130760a0
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