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(;,\l,lN(; (iltYt.t.. l'ltolo. hy (. llntling:;. THE t0tlrsltlre Ramblers' ctub Journat TOg. III. 19rr. No. rr. b ROMANCE AND EFFORT. Bv G, WlNrnnop Youuc. llt tpohcn by him ,in toasting the Cl,ub at its Annual Dinner,) )lu t6th Noacmber, tgro.) lb ny mincl, and I hope to yours, the hour immediately uPon on excellent dinner, amid mbst delightful alrotrld be consccrated to cofiee and contemplation. gilHplvor would clescribe our condition as one of poetic lpn-our lricnds might call it by another name. Lt€ttc€ it is rcpose-and repose is not consonant with €htr*etlon of making an after-dinner speech. Upon lf Occaaion our characteristically British King, IV,, callccl emphatically on Sleep, gentle Sleep, loft nurse ldm i edding a quite reasonable protest against which his author forced upon him,- My poorest subjects ft thh hour nrloop t lf thl poorolt, then what is to be said of the of cwekoning, through the drowsiness of dessert HPty dlrhor, the richest subject of all, the subject of I &untrlil " ? I know well that I am supposed to be thr Rnrnblerr' Club, but I count it among the $lUuror thEt hove fallen to me in life to be attached, ftqulrrly, to your Club ; and since I cannot regard 6IgUr u exhtlng apart from the mountains, I shall il lnoludr the prrt ln the whole, and delay your * r lcw momonh whllc wlrhing e health to thc ilt€ilrt rnd thr wlldort of thcm I 234 The Yorkshire Ratnblers' CIub lournal. Ramance and Efort. 235 My friend Mr. Claud Schuster, in a charming speech to his Land of Counterpane. Was there ever a man who loved you last year, to which, in the parlance of newspaper coires- the mountains as we all love them-progressively, and did pondence, " my attention has just been called," had the not want to climb them-progressively ? Even Ruskin audacity to pillory me as typical of a presumably inferior scaled the Feils and only discovered the greased-poliness of class of mountaineers, one which cares only for the difficulty the Gr6pon because the Gr6pon was not then every and danger of climbing, and whose taste is dulled to the mountaineer's money : as a poor epicure might argue:- more subtle charms of mountain beauty and atmosphere. " How glorious to drink the brown beer of British peaks, Now in the first place I do not think such a difierentiation because we can all afford to get outside it; but the exists. In the second place, if it did, Mr. Schuster could man who unseals the red champagne of Chamonix rocks not claim that he or I belong exclusively to either section is a wastrel and an acrobat !." of it. Why, for his part, when I first met him, he was You probably know well enough what Ruskin and Shelley spurring an exhausted guide in furious progression along the and ,iEschylus and Wordsworth and Stevenson and the other extreme crest of the Egginer-grat ! And, for my part, if I prophets of Peak and Open Air have had to say, but perhaps cannot claim to follow him, in anything but my admiration, on you will allow me to illustrate my point from a few less likely his annual literary discursions and discussions about the sources. I have chosen them myself at random, from memory. remoter purlieus of Mont Blanc, I can count upon his in- Who more unlikely to seek danger for its own sake than dulgence towards my one modest dedication at the shrine prosaic Livy ? And yet Livy knew all about the qualities o{ Mountain Romance. of avalanche snow. Listen to him, in old Philemon Holland's But having dissociated Mr. Schuster personally {rom his translation, describing " the slabbery snow-broth that melts glittering pose, I shall have pleasure in showing you on " and relents about our heels." what a fallacy its brilliance is based. What is the charm What of Roger Ascham, the first of serious-minded of my5fsly or beauty if we are forbidden to attempt to pedagogues ? He had a very poor opinion of your mere penetrate or possess it ? What is the use of a mountain walker: " Walking alone into the field hath no token in it, but to go up it ? Why, when our nascent strength and " a pastyme lyke a simple man which is neither flesh nor appreciation have sampled the glories of smooth curve and " f,she." yielding slope, is our manhood to refrain from fathoming Sir Philip Sydney, the gallant gentleman of all time, is the rare secrets, the richer inspiration of dominant precipice only sorrowful that his rock-climbing days are over: and untrodden summit ? No ! A true mountaineer can The rocks which were of constant mind, the mark nevei be h"ppy in the hills until he has gripped the very In climbing steep, now hard refusal show. heart of their beauty, and that heart lies hidden behind the You would not expect gymnastics from Dr. the pitiless ice-wall, the hardest ribs of rock' You, gentlemen, Johnson, Lexicographer. This, however, is his argument, taken from I know, go further; you are not content until you have Rasselas, which incidentally meets Mr. Schuster at every sounded more ominous depths, and taken your auguries of point. The Prince is protesting against crossing the hills : happy scrambling from the very entrails of the hills ! " I have been told," he says, " that respiration is difficult To my mind, and my assumption is no less legitimate, " upon lofty mountains, yet from these precipices it is the problem-climber is the real poet. He is the truest mystic " very easy to fall; therefore I suspect that from any height whose imagination can create for him all Monte Rosa in " where life can be supported there may be danger of too a Snowdon boulder just as a child, the only genuine ; " quick descent." " Nothing," replied the artist (who is romanticist, fashions a Himalaya finer than all fact from clearly Dr. Johnson), " nothing will ever be attempted if all 4b The Yorhshire Ramblers' Clwb Journal,. IIt Romance and Efort. n7 " possible objections must be first overcome." A very ti earliest speculations were directed towards the discovery sound mountaineering pirilosophy ! oI .'fl, routes-that must clearly To avoid fatiguing you I will only refer in passing to t exist-up the impossible rocks in the photograph.