King's ''Mountaineering" 



perusal with the progressive changes 

 in the vast dynamic drama clearly 

 and impressively portrayed on the 

 tablets of his memory. The region 

 to which they relate ceases to be a 

 mere stretch of the earth's surface, 

 varied with mountain and plain. It 

 becomes the present stage of the re- 

 sults of forces more than world-old, 

 forces that were not new even when 

 the planet had not yet been gathered 

 from the nebulae, and which are still 

 working their tireless will toward fur- 

 ther results that may not be imagined. 

 The vivid interest and the splendid 

 scope of the impression thus be- 

 stowed on the mind of the reader are 

 enhanced by and, in no small de- 

 gree, are due to, King's remarkable 

 literary gift. 



There is in these pages a vital har- 

 mony between the subject matter and 

 the form. It cannot be analyzed ; 

 much less can it be described or ac- 

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