The craftsman . SOMi: CORNISH CRAFTSMEN -^ BY MABEL THORNTON WHITMORE [HERE is on the coast of Cornwall^ Eng-land, a little fishing village which, in thepast twenty years, has become celebratedbecause of resident artists whose work isknown wherever pictures are seen andvalued. But in the last decade there hasgrown up in that same little village, a flourishing industryabout which very little is known outside the limits of thesection influenced by it. Newlyn by Penzance lies onthe border of Mounts Bay, about midway betweenLands End on one side, and the Lizard Lights onthe other. It is a pictures
The craftsman . SOMi: CORNISH CRAFTSMEN -^ BY MABEL THORNTON WHITMORE [HERE is on the coast of Cornwall^ Eng-land, a little fishing village which, in thepast twenty years, has become celebratedbecause of resident artists whose work isknown wherever pictures are seen andvalued. But in the last decade there hasgrown up in that same little village, a flourishing industryabout which very little is known outside the limits of thesection influenced by it. Newlyn by Penzance lies onthe border of Mounts Bay, about midway betweenLands End on one side, and the Lizard Lights onthe other. It is a picturesque little place, crouching at thewaterside under the brow of a steep hill, where thecrooked streets threaten to shoot the pedestrians straightinto the harbor, and where thatched roofs are still infashion. The bleak Cornish coast offerslittle in the way of encouragement to farmers, and thechief occupation of the men and the larger boys is little harbor, artificially made by long piers built outinto t
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