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D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 
'HE }VHITE MOUXTArNS: A Guide to their 
Interpretation. "With a Map of the Mountains and Ten Illus- 
trations. By Rev. JULIUS H. \VARD. 121110. Cloth, gilt top, 
$1.25. 
" Books descriptive of the White Mountains are too few. Any lover of the Granite 
Hills will gladly welcome this valuable addition to White Mountain literature, both for 
the pleasure he himself will derive from its perusal, and for the good it will do in excit- 
ing an interest in the minds of strangers. So far as we know, Mr. Ward's is only the 
sixth of such books. . . . If we were to attempt to classify Mr. Waid's book, we should 
place it along with that of Starr King, tor its sympathetic treatment of the subject. It 
seems to us, however, to occupy a place not filled by any of them, and to share the 
merits of all. It is not a guide-book, and yet its systematic airangement and the in- 
telligent hints in its preliminary chapters give it a real va.ue as a guide to ihe tourist." 
Rev. ITHA.MAR \V. BEARD, in White licitntain Echo. 
" Mr Ward's aim has been something apart from the aims of those who have gone 
before him. He has sought to write neither a guide-book nor an itinerary. He aimed 
not at mere description, nor did he permit his imagination alone to guide his pen. 
His was rather a sympathetic and intelligent attempt to interpret for the contemplative 
mind the great lessons which these impressive elevations are capable of imparting to 
men. . . . Mr. Ward's sympathy with his subject is keen and alive. He writes as 
one who loves Nature profoundly. The faith and devotion of such students we are 
assured that she never betrays. His in truth is a volume to carry along with one to 
the mountain and to open and read anywhere. It is also a volume to read at home, 
liven tli ose who have not in years looked upon those glorious pageants of mountain- 
tops and mDving clouds will find it of great interest and of much practical service in re- 
calling their early impressions and suggesting new ones." J\V' .1 ork Times. 
" The author of ' The White Mountains ' is a mountain enthusiast possessing keen 
poetic conception, the hardihood of a mountaineer, and the especial knowledge of a 
niountain guide. He, therefore, thoroughly covers his chosen field. Little or nothing 
is left to any future gleaner ; for he has studied this region in all its summer moods and 
winter tenses, from North Conway to the retreat to Lonesome Lake, from the great 
wall of the Glen to the heart of tha wilderness, from little Jackson Valley to wild- 
woaded Mxisilauke, and the interest of the author is soon communicated to the reader, 
so that he feels, if he has once visited this region, that he must go again \\ith this book 
in his hand, to look with wider eyes and finer intelligence, to dream with poets and 
think with sages." T/ie Xew York Home Journal. 
"The volume, although it covers familiar ground, is unique in its plan and treat- 
ment, and opens up a new and wonderful source of er joyment to the lover of natural 
scenery. It humanizes Nature, or, rather, it brings the single individual soul into 
communion with that vast and universal soul which pervades the material univeise. ' 
B.iston Transcript. 
" Description of the perpetually changing mountain view (assisted by ten eood 
photogravures), and interpretation of it after the marner of the poet and the believer 
in the Divine Imma icnce, are the two offices which Mr. Ward has so successfully dis- 
charged that his volume will become a classic on the White Mountains." Literary 
World. 
" It furnishes a great deal of practical information which will be of inestimable 
service. " Boston Gazette. 
" The b-.ok is replete with noble thoughts expressed in language of exquisite 
beauty.'' JYY:/ 1 Ycrk Obse>~-er. 
" Th* author is thorousrhlv in love with his subject and not less thoroughly acquaint- 
ed with it." J.~eiv York Tribune. 
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