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here Admiral Fitzroy’s delusive “ ‘ Wheel ’ Barometer Readings,” in which 30 in. 
indicates fair ; 29'5, change, &c. 
Homeland Handbooks : Minehead, Porlock and Dtinsier. By C. E. Latter. 
Illustrated by Gordon Home. 4th Edition. Pp. 123. Price 6d. net. 
Dover, with its Surroundings. By Henry Harbour. Pp. 80. Price 6d. net. 
Hove, with its Surroundings. By H. G. Daniels. Illustrated from Photographs. 
Pp. 76. Price 6d. net. 7J x 5 in. Homeland Association. 
We are not at all surprised to find that the first of these three representatives 
of an excellent series is a fourth edition. The seaboard of Exmoor, with the 
picturesque village of Dunster, Cleeve Abbey, and the hunting of the wild red 
deer, the fox, the hare, and the trout in the neighbourhood, form an undeniably 
attractive group of subjects. The quaint yarn-market of Dunster will reach the 
tercentenary of its erection next year. 
The Y.arn-market, Dunster. 
From “ Minehead, Porlock and Dunster” (by kind permission of the Homeland 
Association). 
The numerous pageants of the last few years have drawn thousands of visitors 
to those smaller English towns which have played such signal parts in “ our 
island story,” and, if these visitors wisely determine to see something more of 
these places than the mere pageant ground, they cannot do better than take a 
“Homeland” guide. Each volume has an ordnance map on the scale of an 
inch to the mile, and architecture and archreology are always, and natural 
history generally, dealt with in full. In this Dover volume, for instance, we 
have not only the history of a Cinque Port, of the Priory in which Stephen died, 
of the stronghold whose record reaches from Roman Pharos to fortifications 
of our own time, and of less known and more distant treasures, such as the 
Norman Church of Barfreston ; but, suggested by the Channel Tunnel scheme, 
we have also an illuminating chapter on local geology. 
Hove is less interesting than Minehead or Dover, but all that the resident or 
visitor can want in a guide-book is here. 
The Boy's Own Nature Book. By W. Percival Westell. With a chapter on 
Nature- Photography and 162 Illustrations from photographs by Rev. S. N. 
Sedgwick, and an Introduction by Sir John Cockburn. 8 x s| in. Pp. 374. 
Religious Tract Society. Price 3s. fid. 
We have often been told that — presumably in order to attract an attention 
which it is difficult to fix — Nature-study should be unsystematic. This volume 
