(1) Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick (2) Cleator and Cleator Moor: Past and Present

Abstract

(1) GALLOWAY comprising the county of Wigtown and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, is probably less pervaded by tourists than any other attractive part of Scotland. Messrs. Macmillan have done well to commit to the Rev. C. H. Dick and Mr. Hugh Thomson the task of dealing with this district in their admirable “Highways and Byways” series, for these two gentlemen between them, one with his pen, the other with his pencil, have produced an ideal volume—not a guide-book in the ordinary sense so much as a vade mecun for the traveller. Mr. Dick, while not neglecting the highways, finds his chief delight in the byways and in those great tracts of moorland and mountain which constitute the southern upland of Scotland. Here he pursues his leisurely way, dropping off his bicycle at little wayside inns and lonely shepherds' cottages, at solitary pele-towers and immemorial kirkyards, wherever he may glean armfuls of legendary and historic lore. Galloway was the chief stronghold of the westland Whigs; memorials of the heroes and martyrs of the Covenant are as holy in his eyes as the sculptured crosses of the primitive Celtic church or the ruins of such noble fanes as Sweetheart and Dundrennan.

(1) Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick.

By the Rev. C. H. Dick. Pp. xxix + 536. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1916.) Price 6s. net.

(2) Cleator and Cleator Moor: Past and Present.

By the Rev. Csar Caine. Pp. xviii + 475. (Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1916.) Price 21s. net.