Mr. Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements. 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., 
Fiera Gurkua RIFLEs, 
Fully Illustvated. Demy 8vo., cloth. 16s. 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 flora, 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 features 
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 toa mountaineering expedition, Mount 
Everest. 
