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The illustrations alone would attract attention. A careful 

 selection seems to have been made from the best of Mr. Parsons', 

 together with three of Professor Bade's. 



Each article appeals to a different temperament, and all will 

 interest and entertain the members of the Sierra Club, and par- 

 ticularly those who desire to revive the memories of last year's 

 Outing. 



Miss Randall's article is apparently a rewriting of the one that 

 was contributed to the January Bulletin; but the latter is some- 

 what more intimate. Her picture of life in the mountains is most 

 encouraging, although "one is fifty miles from a railroad or post- 

 office and a five days' journey from a bathtub," and those who 

 have experienced the pleasures of an outing realize how they 

 are found in the scene described : " From many a widespread 

 meadow, rimmed about with shadowy pines, have we watched 

 the slow impalpable change from garish day to twilight, from 

 dusk to moon-lit night, until the tranquil stars shone forth again 

 to quiet the restless longing the vanishing day brings." And 

 having experienced such moments, we agree with Mr. Rodman : 

 " To many the greatest benefit derived from these outings is the 

 mental and spiritual elevation which comes from communion 

 with nature." E. McA. 



"A Guide to A magnificent work in two volumes, just pub- 

 The Study of lished, entitled A Guide to the Study of 

 Fishes." Fishes,"^ by David Starr Jordan, has been 



presented to the Club's library by Henry Holt 



& Company. Unfortunately it arrived too late for this issue, but 



will be reviewed in the next January number. 



* A Guide to the Study of Fishes. By David Starr Jordan. With colored 

 frontispieces and 427 illustrations. 2 vols., pp. xxvi, 624, and xxii, 598. Published 

 by Henry Holt & Company. New York. 1905. 



