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'HE WHITE MOUNTAINS: A Guide to their 

 Interpretation. With a Map of the Mountains and Ten Illus- 

 trations. By Rev. JULIUS H. WARD. i2mo. Cloth, gilt top, 

 $1.25. 



" Books descriptive of the White Mountains are too few. Any lover of the Granite 

 Hills will gladly welcome this valuable addition to White Mountain literature, both for 

 the pleasure he himself will derive from its perusal, and for the good it will do in excit- 

 ing an interest in the minds of strangers. So far as we know, Mr. Ward's is only the 

 sixth of such books. . . . If we were to attempt to classify Mr. Waid's book, we should 

 place it along with that of Starr King, for its sympathetic treatment of the subject. It 

 seems to us, however, to occupy a place not filled by any of them, and to share the 

 merits of all. It is not a guide-book, and yet its systematic airangement and the in- 

 telligent hints in its preliminary chapters give it a real value as a guide to the tourist." 

 Rev. ITHAMAR W. BEARD, in White Mountain Echo. 



" Mr. Ward's aim has been something apart from the aims of those who have gone 

 before him. He has sought to write neither a guide-book nor an itinerary. He aimed 

 not at mere description, nor did he permit his imagination alone to guide his pen. 

 His was rather a sympathetic and intelligent attempt to interpret for the contemplative 

 mind the great lessons which these impressive elevations are capable of imparting to 

 men. . . . Mr. Ward's sympathy with his subject is keen and alive. He writes as 

 one who loves Nature profoundly. The faith and devotion of such students we are 

 assured that she never betrays. His in truth is a volume to carry along with one to 

 the mountain and to open and read anywhere. It is also a volume to read at home. 

 Kven those who have not in years looked upon those glorious pageants of mountain- 

 tops and moving clouds will find it of great interest and of much practical service in re- 

 calling their early impressions and suggesting new ones." New York Times. 



"The author of 'The White Mountains' is a mountain enthusiast possessing keen 

 poetic conception, the hardihood of a mountaineer, and the especial knowledge of a 

 mountain guide. He, therefore, thoroughly covers his chosen field. Little or nothing 

 is left to any future gleaner ; for he has studied this region in all its summer moods and 

 winter tenses, from North Conway to the retreat to Lonesome Lake, from the great 

 wall of the Glen to the heart of the wilderness, from little Jackson Valley to wild- 

 wooded Moosilauke, and the interest of the author is soon communicated to the reader, 

 so that he feels, if he has once visited this region, that he must go again with this book 

 in his hand, to look with wider eyes and finer intelligence, to dream with poets and 

 think with sages." The New York Home Journal. 



" The volume, although it covers familiar ground, is unique in its plan and treat- 

 ment, and opens up a new and wonderful source of enjoyment to the lover of natural 

 scenery. It humanizes Nature, or, rather, it brings the single individual soul into 

 communion with that vast and universal soul which pervades the material universe. " 

 Boston Transcript. 



" Description of the perpetually changing mountain view (assisted by ten good 

 photogravures), and interpretation of it after the manner of the poet and the believer 

 in the Divine Immanence, are the two offices which Mr. Ward has so successfully dis- 

 charged that his volume will become a classic on the White Mountains." Literary 

 World. 



" It furnishes a great deal of practical information which will be of inestimable 

 service." Boston Gazette. 



"The book is replete with noble thoughts expressed in language of exquisite 

 beauty." New York Observer. 



" The author is thoroughly in love with his subject and not less thoroughly acquaint- 

 ed with it." New York Tribune. 



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