THE seaboard of Cornwall can present two faces—the milder one—that usually seen by the summer visitor—is a pleasant one of sun-baked sands, regular lines of surf delightful for bathing, quaint houses and harbours, and granite rocks arranged as if on purpose to provide secluded coves.

The brutal face of winter, however, changes this paradise to a stormbound land with evil seas beating on every mile of its coasts. Every type of vessel has succumbed to the gales around Cornwall, from the humble fishing smack to the huge liner, and many grand old square-riggers have piled upon the rocks of the Scillies or the Lizard. But there are more glorious memories on the coasts of Cornwall than sad ones, for there have been hundreds of brave rescues carried out by the sons of " Tre, Pol and Pen." To those who live elsewhere in Britain little has been known of the heroism of Cornish life-boatmen, except through the journal and annual reports of the Institution. Now a book has been written, giving in full the stories of each Cornish life-boat station with its splendid record of struggles and heroism.

The author has endeavoured to do for Cornwall what Treanor, Bailey and several others have done for other famous theatres of life-boat work.

The book has been written with the help and with the approval of the Institution, and the foreword is by Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., the secretary. The first chapter is introductory and gives such brief parti- culars of the history and work of the Institution as a whole as are necessary to understand properly the story which follows. The rest of the book is divided into four chapters, each dealing with a section of the coast.

The first section covers the stations on the northern coast from Bude to St. Ives. The second section, the Land's End district from Sennen Cove to Penzance, including the Scilly Isles.

The third section, the Lizard peninsula from Porthleven to Porthoustock. The fourth and last, the south-eastern sec- tion from Falmouth to Looe.

The publication of this very interest- ing book depends solely on the support it is likely to receive from the public.

It will contain a number of excellent charts, and illustrations from photo- graphs, and will be priced at approxi- mately 12s. Qd. All who are interested or who wish to read the book should communicate without delay with the author—Mr. Grahame E. Farr, 35, Abbotsford Road, Redland, Bristol, 6, and, if sufficient interest is shown, the book will be immediately put in hand by a well-known firm of publishers.

The author has generously decided to give a part of the proceeds to the Institution..