Mr. Edward Artwld's Aulnnin AnnoHnccmcnts. 7 



art ? — makes for writing that is pleasant to read, even as Isaac 

 Walton's love thereof inspired the immortal pages of ' The Com- 

 pleat Angler.' Salisbury is the centre of the district in which the 

 author's scene is laid, and the lush herbage of the water-meadows, 

 the true English landscape, the clear channels, the waving river- 

 weeds, fill his heart with a joy and peace that he finds nowhere else. 

 Perhaps for his true happiness we must add a brace or two of fine 

 trout, and of these there was no lack. Whether or not the reader 

 has the luck to share Captain Sharp's acquaintance with the 

 Wiltshire chalk-streams, he can hardly escape the fascination of 

 this delicately written tribute to their beauty. 



TWENTY YEARS IN THE 

 HIMALAYA. 



By Major the Hon. C. G. BRUCE, M.V.O., 



Fll-TH (lURKlIA KlKI.ES. 



Fully Illustrated. Demy Svo., cloth. i6s. net. 



The Himalaya is a world in itself, comprising many regions which 

 differ widely from each other as regards their natural features, their 

 fauna and fiora, and the races and languages of their inhabitants. 

 Major Bruce's relation to this world is absolutely unique — he has 

 journeyed through it, now in one part, now in another, sometimes 

 mountaineering, sometimes in pursuit of big game, sometimes in the 

 performance of his professional duties, for more than twenty years ; 

 and now his acquaintance with it under all its diverse aspects, 

 though naturally far from complete, is more varied and extensive 

 than has ever been possessed by anyone else. In this volume he 

 has not confined himself to considering the Himalaya as a field for 

 mountaineering, but has turned to account his remarkable stores of 

 experience, and combined with his achievements as climber and 

 explorer a picture such as no other hand could have drawn of the 

 whole Himalayan range in successive sections from Bhutan and 

 Sikkim to Chilas and the Karakoram ; sketching the special feature?^ 

 of each as regard scenery, people, sport, and so forth, and pointing 

 out where necessary their bearing on facilities for transport and 

 travel. We would make special mention in this connection of the 

 account of a recent tour in Nepal ; here Major Bruce was much 

 assisted by his unusual familiarity with the native dialects, and the 

 vivid record of his impressions compensates to some extent for the 

 regrettable refusal of the native government to permit a visit to that 

 most tempting of all goals to a mountaineering expedition, Mount 

 Everest. 



