INDEX.

Aar, 150-2

Aigle, 183

Absenteeism, 43

Agriculture, capital improves, 60. In the United States, 69. Burnt stick and hoe eras, 81. Progress in size of farms, 83-85. In Alsace, 230

American lads mountaineering, 13

Americans in Switzerland, 200

Animal worship, rationale of, in the ancient Egyptians, 253

Antithesis, an Alpine, 13

Anza, 126

Apostolism, true, 243

Armies of the Romans, 141

Art, place of, in religion, 241

Auroch, 212

Austrian marriages, 100. Waiter, 244

Avalanches, 22, 158

Blue boy, 13, 16, 141, 142, 154, 163, 164, 171, 184-193

Bonus amicus pro vehiculo, 133

Breakfast at a monster hotel, 195

Bridge, from the present to the future, 260

Brieg, 140

Brienz, 155

Brussels, 247. Hôtel de Ville, unsatisfactory, 248

266Bubble schemes why alluring, 67

Buffers, our labourers have three, 105, 106

Butterflies, 53, 151

Camping out, 177

Capital, power of, in modern societies, 50. Revolution effected by, 53. Inversion of land and, 54. Peel and Gladstone, due to, 55. A ladder, 56. Era of, on Visp-side, 50-66. Will improve agriculture, 61. Flow of, to the land will counterbalance cities, 62. Moral and intellectual effects, 63. Increases size of agricultural concerns, 85. Size of estates in era of, 94. Is king, 103. Essence of all property, 106, 107. Uses of, discriminated, 108, 109

Carpet, magical bit of, 3

Caterpillar, 53, 127

Cathedral of Metz, 238-242

Ceppo Morelli, 127

Certificates of land-shares, 87, 89, 93, 94

C’est un pauvre pays, 217

Change, modern craving for, 4, 5

Christianity, in what sense a recast of religious thought, 255. A

267modern parallel to the ground taken by first promulgators of, 261-263

Church, value of establishment, 65. Effect of disestablishment, 97

Cities, land counterpoise to, 62; and land, 93

Classics, place of, in English education, 222, 223. Unfairly weighted, 226

Colmar and Mulhouse, cotton industry of, 230

Continuity of human history, 213

Co-operation inapplicable to land, 104-106

Corporate estates, 74, 76, 96

Cost of Swiss travel, 176

Coups manqués of humanity, 202

Cranoges, Irish and Scotch, 210

Curé of Sainte Marie aux Chênes, 235

Danube, Roman road on the banks of the, 126

Dinner, last, in London, 3. At Macugnaga, 125. At a monster hotel, 196

Disorder, temporary, permitted at Strasbourg and Metz, 246

Distel, 122

Dogs, why bay the moon, 181

Domo D’Ossola, 128

Drama of the Mountains, 184-193

Drunkenness, how may be discouraged, 85. Want of drink-water a cause of, 209

Dust, 174

Eclipse, feelings caused by, 182

Edelweiss, 161

Education, property is an, 33. What would promote, 84. Spread of, unfavourable to

268existing land-system, 97. Range and method of teaching, 192, 193. Swiss aims, 218-221. How applicable, and how not, to us, 221-223. Sciences of humanity needed, 221, 222. Imagination should be cultivated, 223. Place of poetry in, 224

Eggishorn, 143

Elsass, agricultural wealth of, 230

Empire, how retained, 245

Enthusiastic ladies, 200

Establishments, religious, useful under landlordism, 65. Effect of disestablishment, 97

Etymology of field, 82. Of Scotland, 247

Expected, what is, seldom happens, 245

Eyes in back of the head, 97

Fallows abandoned, 83

Falls of Frosinone, 135. Another, 136. Aar and Handeck, 152. Staubbach, 152. Reichenbach, 154

Fee, 116

Field, etymology of, 82

Feudalism, none in our landlordism, 77

Findelen, 17

Fireworks at Interlaken, 164

Flies, 147

Flowers, 14, 18

France, a cause of its wealth, 98. Insisted on war, 231

French petty proprietors, 105, 106, 110

Frosinone, 135

Fruit, religion is a, 254

Fungus, a Brobdingnagian, 144

Game, 82

Gasteren, 167

269Gauter, 139

Gemmi, 167-71

Geneva, Lake of, excavated by glacier, 8

Genius loci, 133

Geology of Rhone Valley, 7. Of Alpine valleys, 134. Of Delta of the Kander, 166

German professor, 114. Travellers, 156, 201. At Gravelotte, 232-6. At Metz, 237. Conquests will be retained, 245

Glacier action, 7. Bies, 9. Gorner, 9. Fee, 116. Allalein, 119. Kaltenwasser, 138. Rhone, 146. Old Aar, 150. Grindelwald, 162

Gladstone, the Right Hon. W. E., 55

Gneiss, channel how cut in, 151

God, the focal name, 239

Gondo, 135

Gorner Grat, 12

Government, modern Swiss, 146

Gravelotte, battle of, 232-6

Grimsel, 149

Grindelwald, 160

Guide, 18, 115, 123, 127

Guttanen, 153

Handeck, 151, 152

Health, better to keep than to recover, 183

Helle Platte, 150

History, continuity of, 213

Homer, a simile of his, 178, 183

Honesty, 36, 39

Hornli, 17

Hospice, Simplon, 135. Grimsel, 148, 149

Hotels, St. Niklaus, 8. Riffel, 16. Saas, 115. Mattmark See, 120. Macugnaga, 125. Ponte Grande, 127. Domo D’Ossola, 128. Simplon, 135. 270Du Glacier du Rhone, 147. Interlaken, 156. Grindelwald, 161. Schwarenbach, 168. Swiss monster hotels, 194-204. Zurich, 215. Metz, 244

Human interest of improved agriculture, 86

Humanity, sciences of, place in education, 221

Humility, true, 216

Ice sent from Grindelwald to Paris, 162. Ice-field of Bernese Oberland, 174

Ignorance of the day, some address themselves to, but not for the purpose of removing it, 259

Imagination, place in education, 223. How to be cultivated, 224

Imhof, 153

Industry, Swiss, 34-8, 46, 129

Intellectual life among peasant proprietors, 32. Under landlordism, 48. Under capital, 63, 107

Interlaken, 155, 156

Investments for all, 87, 88

Invidious position, 101, 102

Italians compared to Swiss, 129

Jack of many trades, 118

Joint-stock cultivation of the land, 78-89

Jungfrau, 156-8

Kander, Delta of the, 166

Kandersteg, 167

King, capital is, 103

Kitchen-maids, acquisition and use of capital within reach of, 109

Knights’ fees, number of, 77

271Knowledge, what it is, 227. Grammatical and theological studies obscure, 229. Its effects on religion, 257

Lake-villages, 210-215

Land, reclamation, and cultivation of, 21. In Greece and Rome, 51. In feudal times, 52. Inversion of land and capital, 54. Settlement of, prevents distribution, 70. Joint-stock principle applicable to, 78. Land mobilised, 88. Increased value under joint-stock cultivation, 88, 89. Land and cities, 93. Size of landed estates in era of capital, 94. Might be sold subject to rent-charge, 95. Tendency of things with respect to; corporate estates, 96. Disestablishment, 97. Increasing size of estates, 97. Education, 97. Perception of cause of wealth of France, 98. Increase in our population and wealth, 98. Popular character of modern legislation, 99. Rise in cost of labour, 99. How two kinds of wills affect land, 110. Culture and price of, in Switzerland, 206

Landlordism, 41, 50. Political effects in Ireland and Scotland, 111

Landowners, advantage to, of joint-stock cultivation of the land, 89. Diminishing numbers, 97

Lausanne, 3

Lauterbrunnen, 157

Leukabad, 172-174

Life, who scared by phenomena of, 257

Literary and theological training, effects of, 256

Lords of creation, 124

272Lothringen, 231

Lowe, Right Hon. R., 65

Luxembourg, 247

Macugnaga, 125

Magician, capital a, 107

Man, conditions antecedent to, 116

Matterhorn, 12, 17, 18

Mattmark See, 119, 120

Meiringen, 153

Men and women highest form of wealth, 32

Methods of teaching, 192, 193

Metz, 230

Money-lords, 55

Monte Leone, 138

Moon on the Jungfrau, 165. Witchery of the, 179. Why dogs bay, 181

Moral value of peasant-proprietorship, 34-40. Under landlordism, 46

Morality, man lives not only by or for, 40

Moro, Monte, 123

Mortmain, history of abolition of, 74. Its failure, 75

Mother of Curé of Ste. Marie aux Chênes, 235

Mountaineering, 10, 19, 20

Mountains seen face to face, 121

Munster, 144

Museum of Lake-Villages, 210, 215

Myriad-minded, 223

Nature, 192, 225

Nautical felicity, 6

New world’s contributions to old, 7

Niesen, 175

Nonconformity, strength and weakness of, 241, 242

273Oberwald, 146

Opinion, how stream of tendency affects, 99

Organisation, religious, 241

Ownership of land, proposed form of, 89

Paganism, modern, 26

Parallelism of the present religious situation and that at the promulgation of Christianity, 261-263

Paris, 1

Parquetry flooring, 182

Pauper, euthanasia of agricultural, 86

Peak-climbers and pass-men, 10, 18, 175, 199

Peasant-proprietorship, 29-40. Impossible here, 94. French, 105, 106, 110

Pedestrianism, pedantry of, 144

Peel, Sir R., 55

Personal worth, 103

Physical science teaches what truth is, 228

Picturesque will not stop advances, 86

Pié de Muléra, 128

Pinus Cembra, 11, 159. Pumilio, 150

Platform road, 126

Poetry of Vale of Grindelwald, 161. Classical and modern, 224

Pompeii, 52

Ponte Grande, 127

Poor-law, rationale of, 106

Population under peasant-proprietorship, 31. Under landlordism, 45

Porter and practical man, 156

Possibilities, 27

Post-office, Swiss, 118

Potatovors, Irish, 105, 106

Practical man and porter, 156

274Prasias, Lake, 210

Prayers played for, 24

Primogeniture, 90

Property, educational effects of, 33

Prophesying, place of, in religion, 241, 242

Prospects of great proprietors, 100

Railways, delays on Swiss, 138

Récolte des voyageurs, 217

Reichenbach, falls of, 154

Religion, 25. Its primitive and modern forms, 145. Relation to art, organisation, and prophesying, 141, 142. Error and perversion in, 242, 243. Relation of the knowledge of nature and of man to, 251. How affected by the conditions of society, 253. Progressive, 254. A parellelism, 261-263

Religious establishments, when useful, 64

Rent-charge, land might be sold subject to, 95

Responsibility in the formation of opinions, 264

Revolution, a great but bloodless, 53

Rhone, Delta of Upper, 7. Source of, 146

Riffel, 11, 16

Rocky mountains, young pines in, 160. Camping out in, 177

Romanism, decay of, 25, 26. How uses art, organisation, and prophesying, 241

Saas, 113, 121

Sac, lost, 131

St. Niklaus, 8, 21

Ste. Marie aux Chênes, fight in, 234. Mother of curé of, 235

275Saltine, 139

Saracens, 124

Savings’ bank for all, 87, 109

Scene from Gorner Grat, 12. Valley of Saas, 113. Mattmark, 120. Macugnaga, 125. Gemmi, 169

Schwartz See, 16, 17

Scotland, a Belgian’s etymology of, 247

Selborne, White of, 4. Lord, 4, 65

Self, when to be considered, 132. When not, 243

Sermon on the Riffel, 15. Effect of fluency and imagination on, 165

Settlement of land prevents distribution, 70. Action of settled estates, 72. How preventible, 73

Shawls, fine, better than rugs, 117

Simplon, 131-139

Size of estates in era of capital, 94

Slavery, 82

Society, conditions of, affect religion, 253

Sprite, the reprobate, 203

Spurgeon, Mr., 239, 243

Stalden, 113

Steam culture, 83

Stenches in hotels, 8, 147, 148

Stone age, 81, 211

Strasbourg, 230

Sugar factories, 84

Sun, colourless risings, 175. Of England has set, 202. A good sunset, 216, 217

Swiss life in a valley, 23, 29, 40. Compared with Italians, 129. Monster hotels, 194-204. Swiss sights suggestive, 264

Teaching, range and method of, 192, 193

Technical University of Zurich, 218

276Tendency of events as respects land, 96

Tents, travelling with, in Switzerland, 177

Testimony, fallibility of, 118

Theology, 256

Thun, 163

Too soon but late at last, 168

Travel, order of, 5

Travellers in monster hotels, 198. Swiss, classified, 199, 203

Trust-funds, investment proposed for, 89

Twice as clever, 171

United States, answer to a question asked in the, 68 Agriculture of, 69

Urus, 212

Val Anzasca, 126, 129, 130

Valleys, geology of Alpine, 134. View of Grindelwald, 160

Venice, 210

Verrieres, 2

Villages of Upper Rhone Valley, 144. Old Lake, 210-215

Vines and vineyards, 205

Virgin, the Holy, at Ste. Marie aux Chênes, 236

Virtue, highest form of, 38

Visp, 8. Life and religion in Valley of the, 21-27. Thoughts about land suggested by the Valley of the, 28-112

Voiturier, boorish, 143. Dilatory, 165. Payment should depend on time, 166

Water-supply in Switzerland, 206-209. In England, 207, 208. Would lessen drunkenness, 209

Waterloo, 248, 249

277Weather, 175

Well-being, constituents of, 40

Wengern Alp, 157, 158

Wheat cultivated by Old Lake villagers, 212

White of Selborne, 4

Widows and younger children provided for by landowners, 93

Wife, 5, 142, 162, 168, 171

Wildstrubel, 169

Will strengthened, 139

Wills, two errors with respect to, 110

Wine, 197

Wood-carving, 155

Zermatt, 9, 10, 115

Zmutt glacier, 17

Zurich Museum of lake village antiquities, 210-215. Modern city, 214. Technical University, 218

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