LIBRARY AND CLUB-ROOM. The following additions have been made to the Library : "A Fortnight in our Hills and Glens." Anonymous. 1866. And Our hearty thanks are due to the gentlemen who have given the books noted above. The following periodicals have been received : Oxford and Cambridge Mountaineering. Bulletin Pyrénéen. 1922. 1921. October-December 1921; January-March Appalachia. August 1921. Canadian Alpine Club Journal. 1920. Cairngorm Club Journal. January 1922 (No. 58). Mazama. December 1921. Alpine Club Journal. ` November 1921 (No. 223). L'Echo des Alpes. October, November, December 1921; La Montagne. September-October, November-December 1921. Club Alpino Italiano. July-December 1922. Zeitschrift des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins. Fell and Rock Climbing Club Journal. 1921. (Vol. V., No. 3.) Mr T. Meares has kindly presented to the Library the following numbers of the Alpine Club Journal:22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 61, 65, 68, 69, 73, 80, 82, 83, 84, 110, 183. As the Club possesses a complete set of the Alpine Club Journal, these numbers can be sold to any members who wish to possess them. Dr Inglis Clark has kindly presented some half-dozen old numbers of the S.M.C. Journal and several Skye maps, which also will be sold to any members who want any of them. BACK NUMBERS OF THE JOURNAL. Numbers 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 32, 33, 34, 36, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 59, and 61-92 are still for sale at the original price, ¿.e., Is. each up to 84; 85-90, Is. 6d. each; 91 and 92, 2s. 6d. each. A few copies of numbers 10, 12, 15, 22, 31, 37, 54, 57, 58, and 60 are to be sold at higher prices; and Vols. IX. (49-54) and X. (55-60), unbound, are also to be sold at £1 a volume. Applications for any of these numbers should be made to the Hon. Librarian. SLIDE COLLECTION. The collection has been enriched by some fifty slides, kindly presented to the Club by Dr Inglis Clark, dealing both with home and foreign mountain scenery. Thirty-two new slides obtained from negatives, lent by Mr E. C. Thomson, Mr R. C. Paterson, and Mr Alex. Harrison, have been added to the collection. These refer wholly to home mountain scenery. We are indebted to Mr A. Moray Mackay for the loan of the negative of the photo reproduced to illustrate Mr Fraser Campbell's article on "Iona." REVIEWS. The Old Deeside Road (Aberdeen to Braemar): its Course, History, and Associations, by G. M. Fraser, Librarian, Aberdeen Public Library. Aberdeen: The University Press. 1921. IOS. 6d. In this handsome volume, written at the suggestion of the Aberdeen Natural History and Antiquarian Society, by Mr G. M. Fraser, an antiquary and local historian, who enjoys much more than a local reputation, the author has set himself to describe the course, history, and associations of the old Deeside Road, which leads from Aberdeen to Braemar, along with the Mounth Passes over the Grampians, the ferries and fords on the Dee, and the cross-country roads to the North which were connected with the old highway. He has done so with great learning and after much detailed investigation of the course of the road and a careful examination of the portions of it which are still extant and in actual use, and the result is a volume of very high historical and topographical value. To members of the Club possibly the most interesting portion of Mr Fraser's work is the part in which he gives the first complete study which has ever been published of these passes or "Mounths," fifteen in number, which lead over the Grampians and connect Deeside with other parts of Scotland. The nearest of these "Mounths" to Aberdeen is the historic Causey or Cowie Mounth, which was the main connecting link between Aberdeen and the south country till the making of the present north turnpike road in the closing years of the eighteenth century. Another is the now disused Cryne's Cross Mounth, the route by which Edward I. marched with his forces on his memorable journey North in 1296, when he visited Aberdeen and received the homage of the burghers. The same route was frequently used, during the Covenanting troubles, by Montrose. Better known is the Cairn a' Mounth, which was crossed by Edward I. on his return journey in 1296, and which is still the main thoroughfare between Kincardineshire and lower Deeside. One of the most interesting of these old passes is the Fir Mounth, which has recently been described in detail in the Journal, and further west are the Capel Mounth, leading from Clova to Loch Muick, and the Tol Mounth which connects Clova and Glen Doll with Glen Callater and Braemar, both of which are well known and frequently used by climbers. All these and the other Mounth tracks are fully described by Mr Fraser, and their historical associations are narrated in a most attractive fashion. But the other sections of Mr Fraser's work are no less interesting and valuable, and the book as a whole can be most cordially recommended to all who take an interest in topographical investigation. A word of commendation is due to the printers for the admirable way in which the book has been produced, and it should be noted how much the interest and value of the work is enhanced by a large number of illustrations and an excellent map. G. D. The New Zealand Division, 1916-19: A Popular History based on Official Records, by Colonel H. Stewart, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C. (late commanding 2nd Battalion Canterbury Regiment). Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., Auckland, &c. 1921. This book is the second of four parts of the official history of New Zealand's effort in the Great War. It picks up the story of the New Zealand Division after the evacuation of Gallipoli at the end of 1915, and describes its training in Egypt, and then its removal to France. There it soon began to play its part, first in the trenches near Armentières; next in the Somme fighting; again, in the winter of 1916-17, in trenches on the Lys. In 1917 it shared in the victory of Messines and the advance beyond Ypres, in the neighbourhood of which town it wintered. In 1918 it was busily occupied in resisting the German offensive, and later on in the victories of Bapaume, Cambrai, the second battle of Le Cateau, and the battle of La Sambre, after which it entered Germany. Whether its fighting was offensive |