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These secrets pertain to the love affairs of royal personages and the book is accordingly divided into three parts, Russia, Austria, and Germany. The author seems possessed of much intimate knowledge and the book is well illustrated.
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“There is not much, of course, in all this that is new, but some of the instances are not well known, and now and then the author throws a light upon familiar incidents that makes them more intelligible to the American reader.”
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RAEBURN, HAROLD. Mountaineering art. il *$3.75 Stokes 796
“In this volume an endeavour has been made to trace and indicate the broad principles of climbing and mountaineering, from ‘bouldering’ to the conquest of the highest summits of the earth. The book is the outcome of more than twenty years’ experience as a climbing leader in many parts of the Asio-European continent, and on almost every kind of rock, snow, and ice formation. In preparation for it, almost every published work on climbing and mountaineering, in English, and in the principal continental languages, has been consulted.” (Introd.) The book is in five sections: Mountaineering art; British mountaineering; Alpine mountaineering; For the lady mountaineer; General principles. The chapter on dress for women climbers is contributed by Ruth Raeburn. The work closes with a short list of books, glossary, and index.
“In general Mr Raeburn’s technical chapters are first-rate. His remarks on rock, snow and ice work are stamped by the seal of expert and up-to-date knowledge. Of exploration, bivouacs and camps he writes with the knowledge that many years of wandering in unexplored ranges have yielded him. On equipment he has also much to say which is new and needed saying. The book, as a whole, suffers a little from redundant chapters.” Arnold Lunn