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Rh the Alpine Club's Jubilee Celebration. In April the President lectured to the A.Y.P.A. on the "Wonderland of Canada." The house was crowded to the doors and many turned away. The result has been an addition to membership of a number of fine, athletic young men who give promise of "doing things" in the near future.

The Journal has met with a cordial reception. Orders for copies of Volume I are still received from various places in Canada and the United States. We are not unaware that it might be better, and we are not without hope that soon it will rank with any alpine journal in the world. The second volume will be placed in your hands at the Camp, and we may be pardoned if we congratulate ourselves on the excellence of its scientific articles. We would be grateful for any suggestion concerning the best means of discovering the literary talent undoubtedly existing among the members of the Club.

The Alpine Club of Canada: it is a good name and a significant, one to quicken patriotism and to inspire a desire for experience in the hardships and delights of climbing mountains. There is much, very much, in a name, and the soul of Shakespeare would agree. We do not suppose that this Club will be the only one ever in Canada. No doubt In the next hundred or two hundred years, a great many mountaineering clubs will flourish in numerical strength and in esprit de corps: for mountaineering is going to be more and more a Canadian sport, and when Canada is as populous as the motherland, the Rockies of Canada will be as popular as the Swiss Alps. But the Alpine Club of Canada will still be the national mountaineering club, and will have gathered to itself a noble succession of Canada's good men in every high and useful vocation of life; will have added a worthy somewhat to Canadian literature, art and science.