THESE essays - thumbnail sketches of Cape Cod - should not be taken as a serious attempt to describe the Cape or to delineate its people. They merely express a perennial enthusiasm for this summer holiday land, to-day the playground of thousands of Americans, three hundred years ago the first "land of the free and home of the brave."

Acknowledgments are here given to the Atlantic Monthly for permission to include "A By-Product of Conservation" and "Scallops," to The Outlook for the same courtesy for "A Blue Streak," and to The House Beautiful for "A Casual Dwelling-Place."