15 AUGUST 1863, page 22

The Alpine Club Guide To The Alps.* There Can, We

imagine, be no doubt that Mr. Ball possesses peculiar qualifications for the by no means easy task of compiling an Alpine Guide. There are few men, in England or elsewhere,......

Dreamthorp.* Mn. Smith Is One Of The Numerous Buttercups Of

English litera- ture. He is strictly vernacular and indescribably indigenous— very small, very bright,—each little sentence shining with the truebuttercup burnish and gold, and......