UNTRODDEN ENGLISH WAYS L AT THE EDGE OF THE LAND ESLIE STEPHEN always had one irresistible argument to use when he wanted the companionship of James Russell Lowell at St. Ives. "I argued," Stephen has recorded, "that one main charm of the Land's End to him was that nothing intervened between it and Massachusetts." Perhaps that did not exhaust the attractiveness of the district for Lowell. "Every year," Stephen wrote," we paid a visit to Land's End. He confirmed my rooted belief that it is one of the most beautiful headlands in the world. He admitted that our Cornish sea can be as blue as the Mediterranean, to which in other respects it has an obvious superiority." But it was not with the Mediterranean that Lowell's thoughts were most busy; "Cornwall," he said, "has |