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you like and where you like. You need not keep to the 
dusty road, but may often turn aside to the more wild, fresh and 
picturesque by-path. The silence which befits the solemn 
grandeur of the mountains is more emphatically yours. Moun- 
tain paths, and mountain travel where there are no paths, travel 
that often reveals the varied and wonderful phenomena of nature 
in her most majestic and instructive forms, are commonly shut 
out from carriage travel, but lie open to the foot traveller. One 
day among the higher snow scenery of the Alps, is worth a week 
of costly carriage travel along hot and dusty roads. Besides, the 
cost of foot travel is comparatively trifling. There is also a 
physiological advantage which outweighs all others, the greater 
vitality which attends active exercise. Persistence in activity is 
the perpetuation of youth. An active walk means a more active 
circulation, purer blood, a higher vitality, and therefore enhanced 
enjoyment. 
The enthusiastic recommendation Mr. Wyles gave to walking 
exercise as the proper mode of travel, led him to speak of the 
proper preparations for the pedestrian, and especially to describe 
how the size and weight of the knapsack can be kept down. To 
explain this he narrated his own experience, and in glowing 
terms he described the various scenes which had been impressed 
upon his memory during his many journeys with his faithful 
companion on his back. These scenes, said he, are among the 
art treasures stored up in my knapsack rambles, to be enjoyed at 
home, or to be revisited and added to so long as health and 
strength will allow, and to form an invaluable solace when age 
and infirmity forbid the luxury of travel. Most of these lie out 
of the reach of carriage travel, and few, if any, could have been 
profitably enjoyed, otherwise than by the free and deliberate 
observation, which can only be indulged in under a knapsack. 
PAPER, ‘‘PHOTOGRAPHIC REMINISCENCES 
OF THE CLUB’S VISIT TO OXFORD,” 
(IntustRaTED By LanTERN.) 
By J. C. BRUMWELL, M.D., J.P.—Oct. 14th, 1890. 
At the beginning of the lecture, Dr. Brumwell remarked upon 
the great success of this Excursion, which was organized chiefly 
in consequence of an invitation sent to the Club by Mr. J. Spencer 
Balfour, the Member for the Borough, and next dilated upon the 
advantages of Photography as an aid to the enjoyment of a 
