THE WORLD'S BEAUTY SPOTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 106, 28 January 1908, Page 8

THE WORLD'S BEAUTY SPOTS.

. ———$ What are the earth's loveliest, spots? George Meredith says he would put the Taj Mahal, at Agra, first among beautiful things; while Sir Martin Conway, who has traversed tho Alps from end to end, climbod in Arctic Spitzbergen, ascended to the record height of 23,000 ft. in the Bolivian Andes, and travelled through ■ the Himalayas, awarded the ,paim to the peaceful valley of Dovcdale, in Derbyshire—"seen in spring or autumn." Ijiica? Malet', one of tho most-travelled of English novelists, who has traversed every country of Europe, with the whole of India and Ceylon, the United States, Canada, and Australia, says:—"The view I personally caro for most in the world is the wide ocean from the deck of a fine ship wolf out of sight of la id, with a stiff brcezo and-a blue sky with sc,lading clouds. .Mountains, J. am afraid, I think odious, so I will say nothing about them.'" Among thfs othor celebrities whoso ideas of scenic beauty Mr. W". C. Fitzgerald has been at pains to obtain are Miss Ellon Terry, whose decisive preference is given to the Jungfrau, th'f famous peak in the Swiss Alps; Mr. liall Came whose, selection of St. Merit/ is qualified. being almost equalled, in his judgment, by the view which he enjoys every day from his home in Greeba, Isle of Man: and Sir Robert. Ball, who vott'S unhesitatingly for. the Skelligs, "an exquisite spot en the smith enn-st of Ireland.". Madame Melba considers Monterey, in California, "the loveliest place on earth."