Abstract
THE Councils for the Preservation of Rural England and of Rural Wales have rightly judged that their efforts may be strengthened by interesting senior pupils of our schools in that beauty which is such a feature of Great Britain in spite of the disfigurements that have been multi plied so disastrously since industrialism classed our cities under Dr. Jacks's general name of ‘Smok-over’, and ‘bungalitis' spread along so much of our coast. To the appreciation of scenic beauty our minds, variously stored with early memories and the results of study of many kinds, may bring diverse contributions, but these associations are beyond standardization and it is difficult to com municate them far and wide, so Dr. Howarth has in the main focused this book upon sheer physical characteristics, while appropriately bringing in man-made features in many connexions. Dr. Vaughan Cornish, with the artist's eye, sees that our venerable trees that have been allowed to grow in their own way, instead of being lopped as are so many- on the Continent, are a splendid part of our heritage and essentially a British feature, and he has striven in an introduction to suggest the changes of the scene around the year.
The Scenic Heritage of England and Wales
By O. J. R. Howarth. Pp. xxv + 190 + 48 plates. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1937.) 8s. 6d. net.
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F., H. The Scenic Heritage of England and Wales. Nature 139, 945–946 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139945a0
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