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"The Mountain An apotheosis of Mt, Rainier so compelling 

 That Was God."* that we, too, would fain fall down and wor- 

 ship, must prove the author's power over his 

 reader. In addition to the written word there is a wealth of 

 pictures showing the mountain in every possible mood and from 

 every available point of view. Of this publication Mr. John 

 Muir says : "A magnificent mountain book. I never saw finer 

 illustrations, or so many crowded together, like the trees and 

 flowers at the feet of the glaciers. The glorious mountain is 

 indebted to you and so is every mountaineer." 



The love of his subject so fills the author's being that he en- 

 thusiastically carries us with him from the old Indian legends 

 of mountain worship down to the more prosaic but no less inter- 

 esting explorations of the present day. He then follows up these 

 glowing descriptions by practical, tabulated information as to 

 routes, guides, equipment and expenditure necessary to reach his 

 Mecca. 



Nor are the scientific interests forgotten; witness the chap- 

 ters on the geological history and the botanical wealth of the 

 Mt. Rainier region. The reading of this book makes one desire 

 to sell all that he has and start at once on a pilgrimage to the 

 "Big Snow" Mountain. H. M. LeC. 



"The "My best wishes go with those who climb 



MouNTAiNEER."t the hills and scale the peaks of our own 

 wonderful land. The finest of all moun- 

 taineering is the making of trails that others can follow to the 

 heights." These words close a greeting from Henry Van Dyke 

 that ushers in Volume III of "The Mountaineer." Particularly 

 noteworthy among the many interesting articles are Mr. E. W. 

 Harnden's "A New Mountain Country," and Miss Lulie Nettle- 

 ton's account of the Mountaineer Outing to Glacier Peak. Photo- 

 graphs by Harnden, Curtis, and Lindsley deserve special mention, 

 as do the papers on bird and plant fife. M. R. P. 



"Climbing Rainier In the July, 1910, issue of Outdoor Life 

 AND HooD."$ there is an interesting account by Miss Edna 



Cadwalader of the Sierra Club's expedition 

 to Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainier during the summer of 1905 that is 

 well worth reading. Those of us who participated in that outing 

 will particularly enjoy the entertaining accounts of the unusual 



*The Mountain That Was God. By John H. Williams, Tacoma, 

 Wash. Illustrated with maps and 140 views of Mt. Rainier; 11 1 pages. 

 Price, paper, $0.50; Library edition, in boards, $1.00. 



"^The Mountaineer, Vol. Ill, Cascade Number, November, 1910. Pub- 

 lished by The Mountaineers, Seattle Washington. 



tClimbing Rainier and Hood. By Edna Cadwalader. Outdoor Life, 

 July, 1 910. Outdoor Life Publishing Co., Denver, Colorado. Price, 15 cents. 



