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companies and hotels spend in advertising the 

 charms of the particular localities which they serve. 

 Railway-carriages are full of photographs and tourist 

 agencies of pictures of different points in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the railway or hotel. And we may be 

 certain that business companies would not go to the 

 expense of setting up these photographs and pictures 

 if they did not think that people were influenced by 

 them and would be tempted to travel to the scenes 

 tl^ey depict. 



The development of char-a-banc tours is an- 

 other indication of the attraction — and the increas- 

 ing attraction — of Natural Beauty. Since the 

 War, especially, there has been a remarkable 

 tendency of people of every rank in life to rush off 

 whenever they can get a holiday to the most beauti- 

 ful parts of these islands — to the moors of Yorkshire 

 and Devonshire, to the Wye, the Dart, and the 

 Severn, to the mountains of Wales, Westmoreland, 

 and Scotland — ^to wherever Natural Beauty may be 

 found. It is a noteworthy and most refreshing 

 feature in our national life. 



Every summer, too, both here and on the Con- 

 tinent, people make their way to the most beautiful 

 parts of Europe — to Switzerland or the Pyrenees, 

 the Vosges or the Rhine. And in the Dominions 

 and America whenever they get their holidays they 

 likewise trek away to mountain, lake, or river, 

 wherever Nature may be enjoyed at her best. Men 

 may, to carry on the ordinary business of life, be 

 compelled to live in cities and places which are 

 chosen for other reasons than their facilities for 

 observing Natural Beauty. But whenever they can 



