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Going Afoot* A handbook on how, when, and where to walk. One chapter is 

 devoted to the various mountaineering and walking clubs of 

 America, another to the organization of new clubs. A bibliography of moun- 

 taineering journals and books on the open road is appended. M. R. P. 



Winter It is a far cry from Shakespeare to Amy Lowell, from the icicle 

 Sports hanging on the wall to the ski-song of the Braemar postman, Words- 

 VERSEf worth, defining poetry, says it is emotion remembered in tranquillity. 



For the ski-runner, says Walter Pritchard Eaton in his clever intro- 

 duction, "remembering in tranquillity the emotion of his descent ... is 

 more likely to burst into laughter than into poetry." Nevertheless, he reminds 

 us, "they have a lonely side, a still, reflective side," not inappropriate to the 

 poet's attention. The work of both familiar and unfamiliar poets is included in 

 this novel collection. M. R. P. 



Guide to This little guide-book by Ansell F. Hall introduces the traveler 

 YosEMiTE$ most charmingly to Yosemite Park. Even its mass of practical 

 information cannot hide Mr. Hall's love for his subject. It in- 

 cludes an account of the origin and early history of Yosemite Valley and Park, 

 and a description of the roads and trails which lead to its most famous fea- 

 tures. The trips are described, mileage given, and the estimated number of 

 hours necessary to cover the trip. We recommend the book unreservedly to our 

 members. It is issued in pocket size with durable paper cover. M. R. P. 



New Mexico, New Mexico, the Land of the Delight-Makers is the title 



THE Land of the of a 460-page volume by George Wharton James, whose 

 Delight-Makers§ purpose, in his own words, "is to give in readable guise 

 a broad and general idea of the state as a whole, or, at 

 least, of its more important and arresting features." An acknowledgment, in 

 the first paragraph, to Adolph Bandelier for the use of the name "The Delight- 

 Makers," the title given by Bandelier to the novel in which he sets forth the 

 significance of the cliff dwellings of this region and his profound knowledge of 

 the country, people, customs, etc., reduces the shock which one otherwise feels 

 upon finding an apt and well-known title made use of by another author. 



The book is one of the "See America First" series, to which James has al- 

 ready contributed a volume on California and one on Arizona. He first visited 

 New Mexico some thirty years ago, "broken," as he says, "in health and spir- 

 its," and found in the free and wild life there — the broad expanse of hill and 



* Going Afoot. By Bayard H. Christy. Association Press, New York. 1920. Pages, 148. 



t Winter Sports Verse. Chosen by William Haynes and Joseph Le Roy Harrison. With 

 an introduction by Walter Pritchard Eaton. Duffield & Co., New York. 1919. Pages, 258. 



t Guide to Yosemite. By Ansell F. Hall, U. S. National Park Service. Sunset Publish- 

 ing House, San Francisco. Pages, 98. Price, 50 cents. 



%New Mexico, the Land of the Delight-Makers. By George Wharton James. Page Com- 

 pany, Boston. Price, $5.00. 



