tion>Wilkie Collins
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664611307
Table of Contents
THE PRESENT EDITION.
THE ANCIENT DRAMA IN CORNWALL.
LEGENDS OF THE NORTHERN COAST.
The Scilly Islands.
PREFACE
TO
THE PRESENT EDITION.
I visited Cornwall, for the first time, in the summer and autumn of 1850; and in the winter of the same year, I wrote this book.
At that time, the title attached to these pages was strictly descriptive of the state of the county, when my companion and I walked through it. But when, little more than a year afterwards, a second edition of this volume was called for, the all-conquering railway had invaded Cornwall in the interval, and had practically contradicted me on my own title-page.
To rechristen my work was out of the question—I should simply have destroyed its individuality. Ladies may, and do, often change their names for the better; but books enjoy no such privilege. In this embarrassing position, I ended by treating the ill-timed intrusion of the railway into my literary affairs, as a certain Abbé (who was also an author,) once treated the overthrow of the Swedish Constitution, in the reign of Gustavus the Third. Having written a profound work, to prove that
