CORNISH WORTHIES a name of former repute in the duchy, and himself for a long time known as " Q," may claim first place ; but more widely popular than his are the tales of Messrs. Silas and Joseph Hocking. For genuine Cornish humour and sketches of village life, no one has sur- passed Mr. Charles Lee. Tregellas, Bottrell and other writers of that school have done work as truly local but of less literary merit. Mr. H. D. Lowry and Mr. Harris have also given us some good things. Mr. Arthur Norway has written a delightful record of West Country journeyings ii^ his Highzcays and Byzcaxs of Devon and Cornzvall ; he has also written a Devonian novel, and other books of topographic interest. Among other litterateurs may be mentioned Mr. Rennel Rodd and Mr. Arthur Symons. George Borrow, by birth an East Anglian, was born of a Cornish father. It must also be remembered that the mother of the Brontes was a Cornish woman. 53
