12 MARCH 1887, Page 26

High Life and Towers of Silence. By the Author of

"The High Alps in Winter." (Sampson Low and Co.)—The main subject of these sketches is still the Alps in winter. Curious and entertaining are the writer's recollections and experiences. As we read them, our wonder grows that health is sought and apparently found in these very arduous enterprises. Tho author, to judge from the title of her first book, is one of these searchers; but she seems to go through what would go far to knock.np for a month a person of average strength, such an excursion, for instance, as " Crossing the Matterhorn from Visp to Breuil."