showed ruddy in the reflected firelight, the outer edges of the group
were deep in shadow. In the center, close to the fire, his figure
outlined by its glow, stood John Muir, president of the Club,
naturalist, explorer, lover of the Sierras, and loved by all. That night
he shared with us, as often he had done before, his knowledge of those
intimates of his, the Californian mountains, with whom he had lived so
long and so understandingly. And now, in this December, six years since
that evening in the Giant Forest, comes the news that John Muir has been
gathered to his fathers, and that this splendid apostle of the
out-of-doors will never again share its treasured secrets at Sierran
camp-fires.

[Illustration]

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_An amusing, instructive, and tempting account of travel in the byways
just off the new highway._--N. Y. Sun.

The Southland

of

North America

Rambles and Observations in
Central America

By
George Palmer Putnam

Author of "In the Oregon Country," etc.

_With 96 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author, and
a Map, 8o., 440 Pages, $2.50_

"The author has traveled much along the coasts and in the interior of
these jungle-clad Latin-American countries and states, so near and yet
so little regarded or understood by their big northern neighbor in the
family of western nations.

Though primarily devoted to the present-day aspects of the countries
visited--their pressing political problems, industrial experiments, and
further possibilities of development, social structure, and national
ideals--the book takes many excursions into the past, and ventures now
and then into prediction concerning the future.

Life takes on novel and curious aspects in these alien lands, where
there is more regard for festivals than for public improvements, and the
outlander must take his chances of meager accommodation in inns by
courtesy, surrounded by a careless, pleasure-loving throng.

How this populace differs from the rest of the Latin-American world,
what are their customs, diversions, inmost thoughts, and ideals--these
are topics on which the author enlarges, in keenly observant fashion,
and with the true spirit of an experienced traveler.

The volume has many fine illustrations, and through its descriptive
passages runs a vein of excellent humor."--N. Y. _Sun_.

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The Winning of the
Far West

A