lift, and to convert the summit into a grotto furnished with a restaurant, a consulting-room for sufferers from the rarity of the air, and a stall for the sale of picture postcards."
The foreging extracts serve to illustrate the high estate to which a national institution such as the Alpine Club of England may arrive within a period of fifty years, and the valuable national asset it may become as a bond of sympathy and good feeling between men in various paths of life, as well as an exponent of all that is best in literature, science and art.
The text of the speeches in full is a brief history of the Club, most charmingly told, and our members are advised to obtain copies of the February number of the Alpine Journal, Vol. XXIV., No. 179 (Address Edward Stanford, 12, 13 and 14 Long Acre, London, W.C. Price two shillings). The same number contains an account of the accident on the Schwarzhorn written by Mr. G. L. Stewart, who, as well as the writer, was with the climbing party when the deplorable accident occurred. An account of this accident appeared also in the May number of "Rod and Gun," in the account given of the President's visit to England to attend the Alpine Club's Jubilee.
