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Henry the younger : "It mirrors life in a way Mr. Samuel Pepys 

 might envy could he compare his inimitable diary with this 

 curious companion-piece of causerie, and perceive that he who 

 goes over the sea may change his sky but not his mind." 



The quotations from original documents, though numerous, are 

 not too numerous, and add a quaint reality to the chronicle of a 

 hundred years ago. Where Mr. Grinnell tells the story himself 

 he proceeds in the downright way demanded by his subject and is 

 thereby the more convincing. Indeed, Mr. Grinnell can hardly 

 be thought of as telling the story; one has the feeling that it is a 

 story that tells itself. As one turns the pages of adventure, — 

 escapes from the Indians, from wolves, from starvation; as one 

 reads of the way in which tact and decision and sometimes a 

 ruthless promptitude made their way across the continent, one 

 has a feeling that the young boys at least should read the book — 

 if only to learn their heritage of power and the cost of empire. 



J. C 



"My First Summer Every lover of the mountains and of 

 IN THE Sierra."* out-door life will welcome this latest 



word from John Muir's pen. It bears a 

 message of special interest to members of our Club, written as it 

 is by our own much-beloved President, and about a region the 

 preservation of which was the cause of the Club's foundation. 

 The book has that inimitable literary charm which long since 

 placed Mr. Muir among the foremost of American writers. It 

 has been dedicated "To the Sierra Club, Faithful Defenders of 

 the People's Playgrounds." This book was received too late for 

 the careful and extensive review it merits. This will appear in 

 the next issue of the Bulletin. 



*My First Summer in the Sierra. By Johk Muir. Houghton, Mifflin Co., 

 Boston and New York. 354 pages; illustrated. Price, $2.50. 



