Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-21

expedition, and with appalling dangers
encountered on her successful attempt,
both In climbing and descending. one can
understand the emotional relief ii must
have afforded the explorer. who. after all,
is q very human and lovable woman. to
close her contest with Huascaran in this
style: "As I rode along the valley and
looked up at that great magnificent noun
tair. conquered at last. after so many
years Of struggle, days and weeks of
hardship. and now at such cost, l felt
almost like shaking my fist at 1t and say
ing: L have beaten you at last. and !
but l didn't
Not satisfied with her victory. Miss
Peck. the indomitable. announces that
she will gladly make further explorations
among the untrodden peaks of the Andes
the Himalayas or elsewhere, under prop
er conditions. and merely for her own
pleasure intends to climb smaller noun
ta1ns such as the Alps and Canadian
Rockies. AS her record now stands. she
has out-climbed any man residing IN
TINS country. having reached an attitude
l..aU feet higher than Mount Mck'nley.
The interest of the book is not limited
however. to the triumphs of one small
woman over the apex of America Tor
Miss Peck has written with the hope that
by drawing attention to the magnificent
scenery Of the Andes and to other mat
ters observed In my travels. i might aug
ment the awakening interest in our sister
republics beyond the equator. thus hoping
to promote travel commerce and trade
between the two sections Also she ad-
IAits with naive frankness, that she be-
lieves in the equality Of the sexes And
she is glad to prove that woman can
climb as we'll as man.
Illustrations from original photographs
show that the explorer fairly snapshot
ted her way through South America and
up the peaks Of its mightiest mountains.
Guides. camps. crevasses. ice walls and
snowy wastes are contrasted with tropi-
cal homes and exotic gardens; and these
are interspersed with scenes depicting
the peoples. customs and general condi-
tons %. life in Bolivia and Peru. Miss
Peck herself. photographed in the fur
suit from the Peary expedition. which she
wore when scaling Mount Huascaran.
bears no resemblance whatever to the
dainty feminine woman in jeweled eauze
whose portrait serves as a frOntispfece.
Added to the value of the text is map
showing Huascaran and the authors
route.
SIZES AND SEVENs. BY o. Henry. au-
thor Of "The Four Million" etc. New
York: Doubleday. Page & Co.
1t is questionable whether those who
may be classed as inveterate admirers OF
20. Henry" literature will be altogether
pleased with this latest assemblage Of
posthumous stories from his remarkably
prolific pen. True it is that a certain
sense of fealty to the deceased prompts
the occasional rounding up Of his narra-
tives and anecdotes until they have all
been preserved within covers, but neces-
sarily in this process some materials must
be included that do not accord with the
90 Henry" standard. For Sidney Porter
wrote a tremendous lot Of things in his
life, some of them merely fragments,
some little more than whimsical anec-
dotes some briefly biting satires express
i've of the mood of the moment. Yet all
of them are worthy of perpetua ton, for
there is a certain satisfaction in seeing
this miscellaneous mass brought together
to illustrate the peculiar quality of the
mans mind All through these twenty
five stories and scraps runs the charac
teristic 20. Henry" vein, the flashing