Peter Irving’s Journals, edited by Leonard B. Beach, Theodore Hornberger and Wyllis E. Wright. 8vo., 128 pages. New York: New York Public Library, 1943. Price $2.00.

Edited from manuscripts in the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library, University of Texas and the New York Public Library, the mountaineering interest of this publication is limited to the Yale manuscript, which contains Irving’s visit to Chamonix in 1807, his mention of Mt. Blanc being the first by an American. This section of the journal has been photostated for the Club records, and is reproduced in part in American Ascents in the Alps, reviewed above.