Thomas Taylor's book includes chapters on the Celts, Cornwall and Brittany, the Celtic community of Cornwall, the monastery-bishoprics of Cornwall, the evolution of the diocesan bishopric, Cornish saints, ancient religious houses, Cornish hermits, and St. Michael's Mount. The Author was vicar of St. Just-in-Penwith from 1900. He died in 1938 at the age of eighty. The present paperback is a facsimile reprint of the edition of 1916.