16 FEBRUARY 1924, Page 22

THE CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS. By Le Roy Jeffers. (T.

Fisher Unwin. las. net.)

There ate many things to recommend this book, even to those who are not expert mountaineers. Mr. Jeffers has the simple faith that made high places divine ; he has been refreshed and calmed in spirit by his mountain-climbing. Though the philosophical will find no reasoning in so spontaneous a book, the emotional will recognize and feel a comradeship in his ecstasies.