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THIS is a pleasant, chatty book, all the more welcome because wholly unpretentious; not too deep for “human nature's daily food” when roaming among the hills of which it treats. It will be read with pleasure and profit by the tourist, who likes to know just enough about the sundry points of interest connected with the scene of his wanderings to make the enjoyment of his outing intelligent, but who is not haunted by a feverish anxiety to be for ever, in season and out of season, improving his mind. Many who would shrink from a formal scientific treatise with horror or disgust will find themselves able to enjoy this book, and through its channel scraps of useful knowledge may insinuate themselves into their minds which would never have found their way there by any other road.
The Story of the Hills: a Popular Account of Mountains, and how they were made.
By the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson (London: Seeley and Co., 1892.)
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G., A. Our Book Shelf. Nature 45, 364 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045364a0
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