S Mr. Edward Arnold's AiititDni AnnoiiiiccDioits. 



RECOLLECTIONS 

 OF AN OLD MOUNTAINEER. 



By WALTER LARDEN. 



With Photogravure Frontispiece and i6 Fidl-page Illustrations. 

 Demy ^vo., cloth. 14s. net. 



There are a few men in every generation, such as A. F. Mummery 

 and L. Norman Neruda, who possess a natural genius for mountain- 

 eering. The ordinary lover of the mountains reads the story of their 

 climbs with admiration and perhaps a tinge of envy, but with no 

 thought of following in their footsteps; such feats are not for him. 

 The great and special interest of Mr. Larden's book lies in the fact 

 that he does not belong to this small and distinguished class. He 

 tells us, and convinces us, that he began his Alpine career with no 

 exceptional endowment of nerve or activity, and describes, fully and 

 with supreme candour, how he made himself into what he very 

 modestly calls a second-class climber — not 'a Grepon-crack man,' but 

 one capable of securely and successfully leading a party of amateurs 

 over such peaks as Mont Collon or the Combin. This implies a 

 very high degree of competence, which in the days when Mr. Larden 

 first visited the Alps was possessed by an extremely small number 

 of amateur climbers, and which the great majority not only did not 

 possess, but never thought of aspiring to. Perhaps it is too much 

 to say that Mr. Larden aimed at it from the outset ; probably his 

 present powers far exceed the wildest of his early dreams ; but from 

 the very first he set himself, methodically and perseveringly, to 

 reach as high a standard as possible of mountaineering knowledge 

 and skill. Mr. Larden's name will always be specially associated 

 with Arolla, which has been his favourite climbing centre ; but his 

 experience of all parts of the Alps is unusually wide. His climbing 

 history is a brilliant illustration of the principle which Mr. Roosevelt 

 has been recently expounding with so much eloquence and emphasis, 

 that the road to success is by developing to the utmost our ordinary 

 powers and faculties, and that that road is open to all. 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF 

 BRITISH FORESTRY. 



By A. C. FORBES, F.H.A.S., 



Chief F(^restrv I.nseector to the Depaktaient of Ac;riculture kok Ireland. 

 Author of ' English Estate Forestry,' etc. 



Illustrated. Demy 8vo., cloth. los. 6d. net. 



The purpose of this volume is to survey the present position and 

 future possibilities of British P^orestry under existing physical and eco- 

 nomic conditions. Modern labour problems and the growing scarcity 



