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"Chronicles A handsome volume of four hundred pages. Begin- 

 OF THE White ning with Indian lore and first settlements, then his- 

 MouNTAiNs"* torical events, carrying the latter down to the present 

 day, these first chapters give the pioneer mountaineer 

 of the west a good idea of the value of preserving the slowly gathering 

 mountain lore of our own region. The actual climbs and discoveries, as 

 well as the summer and winter experiences, are linked with a long list 

 of noted names, dear to all eastern climbers, and including the pioneer 

 innkeepers who were largely instrumental in making the history of the 

 Range. The founding, in 1876, of the Appalachian Mountain Club, at 

 the call of Professor E. C. Pickering, and with Professor C. E. Fay in 

 the chair, "marks the beginning of a new epoch in the exploration, study, 

 and pleasure use of the White Mountains." The chapter on "Lumber In- 

 dustry and Forestry" is the usual story of waste followed by intelligent 

 conservation. Happily the Appalachian Club now owns and controls 

 many of the beauty spots of the White Mountains. H. M. Le Conte 



"Blackfeet Tales In his Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park 

 OF Glacier James Willard Schultz tells in diary form how, after 



National Park"! a lapse of many years, he spends a summer wander- 

 ing through Montana National Park with his old 

 friends and foster-brothers. Yellow Wolf, Two Guns, Stabs-by-mistake, 

 and Tail-feather-coming-over-the-hill. After days spent in hunting, 

 moving camp, or religious ceremonies, the Indians entertain their white 

 foster-brother by camp-fire legends of their tribe. We learn how "elk- 

 dogs," or horses, were first given to man ; we admire the skill and brav- 

 ery of New Robe when he rescues his captive friend by running full 

 speed over the seven freshly skinned buffalo-skulls; we are glad when 

 the jealous wife drowns in the "swim of hate" which she had herself 

 proposed to her unoffending rival; we can almost excuse the treachery 

 of the Bad Wife, so plain is it that a sudden and overwhelming passion 

 for the handsome stranger blinds her to all sense of right and wrong. 



Coming, as they do, straight from the lips of the natives and couched 

 in simple but picturesque phrase, these tales sparkle with a freshness and 

 naive charm that no one — not even the lover of the modern psychological 

 novel — could resist. Here we have real and living men, women, and 

 children — and, yes, even gods, who convince us of their existence by the 

 way they talk and act, by the very force of the primitive passions which 

 sway them, by the universality of their appeal. Florence Atkinson 



* Chronicles of the White Mountains. By Frederick W. Kilbourne. Houghton 

 MifHin Company, Boston and New York. 1916. Price, $2.00 net. Illustrated. 



^Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park. By James Willard Schultz. 

 Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1916. Price, $2.00 net. Illus- 

 trated. 



