Wessex . even nowadayssometimes revived when organs fail—as, indeed, hasbeen the case at Puddletown, the Weatherbury of thenovels, as these words are being written. In very few of Mr Hardys stories does he travelfar outside the immediate confines of Dorset ; but inA Pair of Blue Eyes he takes the reader as far afield asCornwall, laying several of the scenes of that romanceat Boscastle, which he calls Castle Boterel ; Launceston,disguised as St Launces ; and the village of St Juliots,otherwise Endlestow. In that fine romance. The Trumpet-Major, with itsecho of the stir and the stress of the tim
Wessex . even nowadayssometimes revived when organs fail—as, indeed, hasbeen the case at Puddletown, the Weatherbury of thenovels, as these words are being written. In very few of Mr Hardys stories does he travelfar outside the immediate confines of Dorset ; but inA Pair of Blue Eyes he takes the reader as far afield asCornwall, laying several of the scenes of that romanceat Boscastle, which he calls Castle Boterel ; Launceston,disguised as St Launces ; and the village of St Juliots,otherwise Endlestow. In that fine romance. The Trumpet-Major, with itsecho of the stir and the stress of the times of theNapoleonic wars, the little village of Sutton Poyntz,nestling amid the hills a short distance inland fromWeymouth Bay, and disguised by Mr Hardy under thename of Overcombe, plays a scarcely less importantpart than the neighbouring town of Weymouth 268 •! • . ??< t • ••?-••••-•-••• THE MILL COTTAGES AT SUTTON POYNTZThe Overcome of The Trumpet-Major • ?: ;V. i:i Sutton Poyntz (Budmouth Regis) itself. One of the most picturesquevillages of southern Dorset, Sutton Poyntz is nowadaysa favourite resort of artists, and in selecting this retiredspot for the theatre of his stirring romance Mr Hardyshowed that unerring sense of contrast which, withoutviolence of diction or of action, has so often provedsuch a wonderful counterfoil to the more stirring ofthe incidents in his stories. Sutton Poyntz is much what it was when thepossible invasion of Bonaparte was stirring the southof England from end to end, and causing old wives,children, yeomen, and rustics sleepless nights andharassing days. The present mill is not that of MillerLoveday and his lodgers, for Mr Hardy transported,as has often been his custom, Upwey Mill from itsactual site to Sutton Poyntz, a spot of greater pictur-esqueness or effectiveness. In only one of Mr Hardys long stories has hetravelled outside Wessex in its widest sense, and placedhis scenes upon the Continent. And in this
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