. The New England magazine . irst issued in1876. It is amodel book of itsclass, and if onlyone work on theWhite Mountainswere available, thiswould ])robably bethe most usefuland interesting,because it con-tains not only allthe practical in-formation which,<i,„«^ I travellers need, JN^ \yyx\. also a mass of quotations se-lected with ad-mirable judgmentJeremy Feiknap. from the general body of WhiteMountain literature. Exclusive of StarrKing, more than sixty authors and poetsare represented by one hundred andsixty quoted passages. Guide books, Ihardly need to remind the reader, areoftentimes m
. The New England magazine . irst issued in1876. It is amodel book of itsclass, and if onlyone work on theWhite Mountainswere available, thiswould ])robably bethe most usefuland interesting,because it con-tains not only allthe practical in-formation which,<i,„«^ I travellers need, JN^ \yyx\. also a mass of quotations se-lected with ad-mirable judgmentJeremy Feiknap. from the general body of WhiteMountain literature. Exclusive of StarrKing, more than sixty authors and poetsare represented by one hundred andsixty quoted passages. Guide books, Ihardly need to remind the reader, areoftentimes much more entertaining thanbooks of travel which might be supposedto have higher literary pretentions, andmany a lover of the hills has been carriedback in fancy to happy days yonder byreading over this excellently composedmanual. Let no one conclude that the last word 1 The White Mountains: a handbook for travellers,etc. With six maps and six panoramas: including thenew \Iachian-club map. Tenth edition. Boston, THE LITERATURE OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. That, had been said. In 1882, Samuel AdamsDrake added his name to the long list ofauthors who have dealt with the fascinat-ing topic of the White Mountains. Theplan of his work, The Heart of the WhiteMountains, cannot be called novel, butits execution is admirable, the interest issustained, and the legendary and scenicphases of the region have never beenmore appreciatively, more skilfully reading the numerous descriptions ofthe sensations produced by ascents ofhigh peaks, by the panoramic views, bythe sight of grand and uncommon effects,of strange forms, of fearful steeps, onekeeps in mind an ideal of how this taskshould be performed, — for of courseevery one thinks himself competent tojudge how a given picture ought to bepainted ; — but, so far as the grand, theawful, the sublime aspects of the heightsare concerned, this ideal remains unsatis-fied until Mr. Drakes book is read. Afterhis narrative of hi
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