"nw, Histatarane Jounxat.—Reeords of po "Hileyan Club edited Heuncth'aason, "Yel. Jit, Apri 1938 CGalentea? Thacker," Spink 2 Ca, P.O. Box mason: 2 Creed "Lane BGA. Rs. 6 or 8/-).
The Himalayan Range is so much the: property of China that this publication by the Himalayan Club should. be angerly acquired and studied; especially as it comes out fah the reasonable interval of once} arrear and contains vivid first-hand descriptions of exploration of the world's most gigantic mountain This reliance entirely on the: mountaineer and explorer. produces remarkably high standard of literary ability. Somehow it would seem that acquaintance with the greater heights of itself carries passport to the possession of a wer of graphic description. The lender of the last Everest expedition, Brigadier-General C. G. Bruce, contributes a brilliant Li cote, of the tragic episode which resulted in the death of Mammery in attempting to climb Nanga Parbat with his two Gurkha companions. 'They reached the height of 21,000 and then in an attempt onthe summit on August 24, 1895, they perished and were never seen again. General Bruce describes jfammery as the greatest and most'adventurous of 'British' mountaineers of all time and adds this tribute from Collie, Mummery's colleague in the expedition: that last year the question was raised regarding the correct pronuncia-
experts are no less firmly agreed tion of the word Himalaya, and the over the spelling of Kangchenjunga. 'The oficial view of the Map Publication Department is fortified by a Sanserit scholar, Pandit Hara Prasad Shastri. He gives the detivation of the name as Kancan—golden; Jangha—thigh. But the Editor' is not satisGed with this rection of he view that the proment spelling "Kangehenjunga" is correct. The Editor says:
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This storm in a teacup is interest inding. down into face, and the snow ing if only for the indication that Toveds9"wel keen gunnd the exigencies of a headline artist in the press may radically affect the [deductions of philologists—.n. The leader of the International layman Expedition of last ye Professor Dyhrenfurth, contributes
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