8 Mr. Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements. 
RECOLLECTIONS 
OF AN OLD MOUNTAINEER. 
By WALTER LARDEN. 
With Photogravuve Frontispiece and 16 Full-page Illustvations. 
Demy 8vo., 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.AS., 
CuieF Forestry INsPEcTOR TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR IRELAND. 
AuTnHor of ‘EnGcLisH Estate Forestry,’ ETC. 
Illustrated. Demy 8vo., cloth. 10s. 6d. net. 
The purpose of this volume is to survey the present position and 
future possibilities of British Forestry under existing physical and eco- 
nomic conditions. Modern labour problems and the growing scarcity 
