THE CANADIAN ROCKIES: NEW AND OLD TRAILS.
The Canadian Rockies; New and Old Trails. By A. ll. Coleman. (Fisher Unwin. 12s. Od. net.)—Professor Coleman sketches for us his travels in the mountains, beginning with his first acquaint- ance with the Rookies and the Columbia River in 1884 and end- ing with his last visit to Mount Robson in 1908. His first chapters are perhaps the most interesting to the general reader, his last to the mountaineer, but he is always a readable and even a graceful writer, and here and there are a few lines of landscape painting or a brief allusion to the flowers which we would gladly have had extended. Ile has caught with much success the fascination of the mountains, and his readers will probably become imbued with his quiet but deep enthusiasm for the latest favourite of the Canadian Alpine climber—Mount Robson—a peak which best expresses the peculiar and characteristic form of the Rooky Mountains. We recommend those who intend to visit this vast field for the enterprising mountaineer to read Professor Coleman;
they will learn what travelling in the Rockies means, almost certainly acquire a love of them, and appreciate, moreover, the distinct literary charm of the author and his instructive handling of geological problems.
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