Excerpt from The Cruleans, Vol. 1 of 2: A Vacation Idyll

English travellers, and still more English exiles in the east, love the Coerulean Mountains for their suggestive resemblance to the Surrey Hills. They love them, too, for their blue, transparent atmosphere, their sweet sylvan vistas, their woodlands thick with wild roses, their undulating stretches of sward, where the horseman may gallop as freely as on the Brighton downs. Unlike the gorgeous outlines of the great ranges of the north, - Simla with its wide perspective and snow-clad horizon, Naini-Tal clinging to its precipitous mountain side, or the far-off, awful, chilling majesty of Everest and Kinchinjunga, - the Coeruleans win you by a loveliness which owes much of its fascination to being essentially homely.

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