11 JANUARY 1879, page 22

Sir H. Norman On The Indian Frontier.*

THE best paper by far in the Magazines of January, and we think the best paper that has yet appeared on the subject, is Sir Henry Norman's, in the Fortnightly, on "The......

Alpine Ascents And Adventures.*

THE taste for the climbing of mountains is one which it is especially vain to dispute, for it is absolutely incommuni- cable, and more incomprehensible to those who do not......