12 AUGUST 1899, page 18

The Early Mountaineers.*

MANY have been the attempts to account for the fascination of mountaineering as a sport, and many have been the failures. No doubt this fascination is due in different natures......

Books.

AN AMERICAN'S RECOLLECTIONS OF WORDS WORTH.* COLERIDGE declared to an American visitor that, while he was only a poor poet in England, he was "a great philosopher in America";......