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moment. The chapters cover a wide range of topics : e. g., 

 "Bhotia Marriage Customs," "Tibetan and Bhotia Death Cere- 

 monies," "Religion and Government in Tibet," "Mansarowar 

 and Kailas, the Abode of the Gods," "The Passes to Western 

 Tibet," and "Customs of the Western Bhotians," "A Tibetan 

 Trade Route," etc. A number of excellent maps are included in 

 the volume. Many an interesting incident is woven into the nar- 

 rative. It would be hard to find anything more unique than the 

 author's account of the manner in which a hundred Tibetans, 

 armed only with stones and axes, hunted down and slew a man- 

 eating tiger. On the whole, it would be difficult to find a more 

 readable book on the mountains, people, and customs of Tibet. 



W. F. B. 



" The Voice of ^ choice, and in some respects rather 



THE Mountains." ^'em^^'kable, collection of excerpts from the 

 literature of the mountains that has been 

 gathered in this dainty little volume.* Scarcely any aspect of 

 mountain scenery has been overlooked, and every mood of the 

 beholder finds some expression appropriate to itself. French, 

 German, English, and American writers have all been laid under 

 tribute. Most of the pieces are poetry, but there also are quite 

 a number of well-chosen prose extracts. The grouping of the 

 contents of the volume is partly geographical and partly thematic, 

 as is evident from the following selection of general headings : 

 "The Mountains," "In the Valley," "Man and the Mountains," 

 "Cloud Pageantry," "Storm," "Hills and Fells of England," "The 

 Alps," "Hellas and the Orient," "The West," etc. Both in size 

 and in content the book is well adapted to become the pocket 

 vade-mecum of a mountaineer. W. F. B. 



" In the Heart '^^^ mountaineer, especially if he be con- 

 OF THE templating visiting the Canadian Rockies, 



Canadian Rockies." ^^^P ^^^"^ interested in this book.f 



Besides giving a very good account of the 

 general aspect of these mountains and a description of the peaks 

 of greatest importance, with choice photographs, there are a 

 great many first ascents detailed here, and those one always 

 enjoys. One feels, perhaps, on noticing the footnotes that ex- 

 plain many common mountaineering terms, that the book was 

 written with a view to instructing the non-climbing public who 



*The Voice of the Mountains. Edited by Ernest E. Baker and Francis 

 E. Ross. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. New York: E. P. 

 Button & Co. Pp. 294. 



t In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies. By James Outram. New York: 

 The Macmillan Company. 1905. Pp. 466. 



