THE TARE cs : GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE MAY, 1929 & CONTENTS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR Down Devon Lanes With 46 Titustrations HERBERT COREY Highlights of London Town 15 Natural-Color Photographs Lakeland, Home of England’s Nature Poets 1§ Natural-Color Photographs CLIFTON ADAMS From Stratford to the North Sea 16 Natutal-Color Photographs Through the English Lake District Afoot and Awheel With 20 Illustrations RALPH A. GRAVES A Tour in the English Fenland With 27 Illustrations CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Eagle in Action ‘With 20 Illustrations FRANCIS H. HERRICK PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALL . WASHINGTOD . w= - 2) ee seat } %.ou cant bring your rugs to us- Gur representa store af one of the community, and bi save you time and by tests, yourra mbined, iil remowe-all the dirt which y or. In other words, we could show you the ‘of The Hoover. sigeeuion. Tats and $135. Wirh Hodes cleniay,.. fees Rlaer own. Liberal rogs the excl ) demonserate on yo | q i he HOOVER It BEATS... as it Sweeps as it Cleans ‘iii araVor. LV, No. 5 WASH INGTON May, 1929 NAT GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZIN| THE ONAL & E DOWN DEVON LANES By Herm WO) of us Hived/as well as tray. elers cutlld on a motor tour of Devon. ‘The daily cost for three meatsand hptel room was under $5. ‘That sum covered gar, ofl, gurage, and tips. At this point the reader is properly in credulous. “They must have eaten most of their meats out of a bag.” But we did not, In exch case we went to the best inn of the town, if achoice were possible. We always tried tw get the hest room, Only once at twice ‘did we fail to find a room with two beds. Sometimes we slept amid sneh treasures of ald ma hogany that We groaned covetously in our slecp. Not often ditt we find private bnth- rooms, Hut not mare thin three times was there honest reason to grieve at the aceuninindation. ‘The antomoliile association stars inns inorder of merit, Wwe ji for a room was 30 shillings at a four-starred hotel. Here we had a tuge chamber, with a white atid brass bathroom resembling the engine room af a futuristic Finer, andl two Ieals quiiy with mattresses nid thick with down eoveriets, That is the equivalent of $7- Tt ts true that we: felt ourselves vilely overcharged, but this was merely hecause oor standards of vale haul beet abruptly changed, In other towns we bad roots beds. for as Tittle as nine shilli they Were the best rooms in the most con- venient inn at the mpst available town. Tn $0 days’ touring the nightly cost of a donble roots averaged under 14 shillings, hook we most ERT COREY, sa (eo Seaviot Roan is Ste Navona Cengaynitie Macasnre Liteon Fare whieh i $3.50, us near as may be. ‘Hea fast arid inch rated three-and-six for each ani dinner not more than six shillings: At the top rates, then, the day's hoteling. cost ust tom, 14 shillings; breakfast, 7: lunch, 7 dinner, 12, a total of 4o shillings, or $t. “That leaves a neat margin before the total af $15 is reached, which we esti- mate a5 itt daily cost. THERE WERK, OF CovESE, THs! ‘There were, of course, tips, In the more expensive hotels the chambernaid was delighted with one-and-six, the porter thought himself blessed with two shillings for toting our haggage upstairs and down to the car again, and the waiter's half crown for serving three meals seemed quite sarsfactory, As we did met move ‘on each day, the pershem cost of tips was ‘out down somewhat: ‘That js, it should have been cur down. Tut the truth is that the financial member is an incurable spendthrift ‘with small money. The Devonians occasionally suit atight, blue uniform with a small, plump boy and deck him with buttons and top: hime with a pill-box cap. Shch-a bey was always eit for tuppence if the firancial: miember contd think of a good. excuse. He could be incredibly harsh with dumb and surly chambermaids, even thangh they were persons of titimpeachable, danily lives, Mutapleasant, twittering little thing, with a soft voice and a bright smile. ‘There was a-girl al ‘Totnes who, when she brought in the morning en and-stated