The Alpine Club collects every book dealing with the mountains and also most of the articles that appear in the Press and Magazines. The Catalogue of the Alpine Club Library should, therefore, be the most complete bibliography in existence. The additions to the Club Library are published from time to time in _The Alpine Journal_. The most useful bibliographies of Alpine book that are accessible to the general reader are contained in _Ueber Eis and Schnee_, by Gottlieb Studer (1869-1871), and _Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide Books_, by the Rev. W. A. B. Coolidge (1889). Perhaps the most thorough book on every phase of the Alps, sporting, social, political and historical is _The Alps in Nature and History_, by the Rev. W. A. B. Coolidge (1908). For the Geology of the Alps and the theory of Glacier Motion there are no better books than _The Glaciers of the Alps_, by John Tyndall (1860; reprinted in the Everyman Library), and _The Building of the Alps_, by T. G. Bonney (1912). For the practical side of mountaineering, _Mountaineering_, by C. T. Dent (Badminton Library), is good but somewhat out of date. The best modern book on the theory and practice of mountaineering is _Modern Mountain Craft_, edited by G. W. Young (1914). This book is in the Press. It contains chapters on the theory of mountain craft in summer and winter, and in addition a very able summary of the characteristic of mountaineering in the great ranges beyond Europe as described by the various experts for the particular districts. Winter mountaineering and ski-ing are dealt with in _The Ski-Runner_, by E. C. Richardson (1909); _Ski-ing for Beginners and Mountaineers_, by W. R. Rickmers (1910); _How to Ski_, by Vivian Caulfield (1910); _Ski-ing_, by Arnold Lunn (1912). For the general literature of mountaineering the reader has a wide choice. We cannot attempt a comprehensive bibliography, but the following books are the most interesting of the many hundred volumes on the subject. The early history of mountaineering is dealt with in Mr. Coolidge’s books referred to above. There is a good historical sketch in the first chapter of the Badminton volume. The most readable book on the early pioneers is _The Early Mountaineers_, by Francis Gribble (1899). _The Story of Alpine Climbing_, by Francis Gribble (1904), is smaller than _The Early Mountaineers_; it can be obtained for a shilling. We shall, where possible, confine our list to books written in English. This is not possible for the earlier works, as English books do not cover the ground. _Descriptio Montis Fracti juxta Lucernam._ By Conrad Gesner. 1555. _De Alpibus Commentarius._ By Josias Simler. 1574. _Coryate’s Crudities._ By T. Coryate. 1611. This book contains the passage quoted on p. 15. It has recently been reprinted. _Diary (Simplon, etc.)._ By John Evelyn. 1646. (Reprinted in the Everyman Library.) _Remarks on Several Parts of Switzerland._ By J. Addison. 1705.