Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

He also contributed to the Saturday Review Fraser Macmillan the Fortnightly and other periodicals. He was already known as a climber as a contributor to Peaks Passes and Glaciers (1862) and as one of the earliest presidents of the Alpine Club when in 1871 in commemoration of his own first ascents in the Alps he publiLeslie Stephend The Playground of Europe which immediately became a mountaineering classic drawing—together with Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps—successive generations of its readers to the Alps. Stevenson Thomas Hardy W.