12 AUGUST 1899, page 19

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......

Two Public Schools.*

KR. LEACH gives to the first chapter of his history of Win- chester the title of "The First Public SohooL" He thus suggests a question which has been often asked and never......