PREFACE 



In this book, made up of sketches first pub- 

 lished in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the 

 best I could to show forth the beauty, gran- 

 deur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild 

 mountain forest reservations and parks, with a 

 view to inciting the people to come and enjoy 

 them, and get them into their hearts, that so at 

 length their preservation and right use might be 

 made sure 



Martinez, California 

 September, 1901 



