Book Reviews. 



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BOOK REVIEWS. 



Edited by William Frederick Bade. 



The American Academy of Political 

 Public Recreation and j c • 1 c • -n -u 



^ ^ and bocial Science will soon publish a 



Playground Facilities. • 1 , ^i.- ^ • j n 



special volume on this topic, and all 



interested should write them at West Philadelphia Station, Phila- 

 delphia, for information as to terms on which it may be obtained. 



E. T. P. 



ii-j Y<f ' ^ most readable article by Prof. Charles 



" E. Fay (ex-president of the Appalachian 

 est Altitudes and Mountain Club and of the American Al- 

 FiRST Ascents. p-^^ ^^^^^^ remarkably well illustrated 



and descriptive of the highest peaks in all parts of the world. 

 National Geographic Magazine, June, 1909. W. E. C. 



The Reverend Albert W. Palmer de- 

 The Mountain Trail , 1 , • 4.u x?- 4. 



J ^ hvered an address in the First Congre- 



and ts essage. gational Church of Oakland recently 



under the foregoing title. To those present it was truly a message 

 of uplift and strength, and the possessor of a copy of it in print 

 values it highly. It was written by a man who understands to 

 those who understand, and to quicken the perception of those 

 who hasten heedlessly over 'The Trail." E. T. P. 



"A Sketch of the ^^^^ book covers the tremendous 



_ _ field indicated by its title and fur- 



Geography and Geology of . , ^, ^ ^ j ..1. 



mshes the most recent and auth- 

 THE Himalaya Mountains •, ,• ^^^ c a ^ 



^ „^ ontative collection of data on this, 



AND J/lBET 



as yet little known, wilderness con- 

 taining the highest peaks on the globe. The work was done by 

 Col. S. G. Burrard and H. H. Hayden and pubHshed by order of 

 the Government of India. It is divided into four parts : Part I. — 

 The high peaks of Asia. Part II. — The principal mountain 

 ranges of Asia. Part III. — The rivers of the Himalaya and 

 Tibet. Part IV. — The geology of the Himalaya. Three peaks 

 are reported as exceeding 28,000 feet in altitude : Mt. Everest, 

 29,002; K^, 28,250; Kinchin junga I, 28,146, and 75 peaks exceed 

 24,000 feet. The present-day mountaineer surely cannot sigh for 

 more worlds to conquer. W. E. C. 



*Sold at the office of the Trigonometrical Surveys, Dehra Dun, India., 

 Price, 8 rupees. 



