INDEX.
- Aar, 150-2
- Aigle, 183
- Absenteeism, 43
- Agriculture, capital improves, 60.
- 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
- Bubble 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
- modern 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.
- 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
- existing land-system, 97.
- 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.
- 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
- Gauter, 139
- Gemmi, 167-71
- Geneva, Lake of, excavated by glacier, 8
- Genius loci, 133
- Geology of Rhone Valley, 7.
- German professor, 114.
- Glacier action, 7.
- 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.
- Hotels, St. Niklaus, 8.
- 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.
- 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
- Knowledge, what it is, 227.
- 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
- Lothringen, 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.
- 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
- Oberwald, 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.
- 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
- Prasias, 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.
- 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
- Saltine, 139
- Saracens, 124
- Savings’ bank for all, 87, 109
- Scene from Gorner Grat, 12.
- Schwartz See, 16, 17
- Scotland, a Belgian’s etymology of, 247
- Selborne, White of, 4.
- 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.
- 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.
- Swiss life in a valley, 23, 29, 40.
- Teaching, range and method of, 192, 193
- Technical University of Zurich, 218
- Tendency 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.
- Vines and vineyards, 205
- Virgin, the Holy, at Ste. Marie aux Chênes, 236
- Virtue, highest form of, 38
- Visp, 8.
- Voiturier, boorish, 143.
- Water-supply in Switzerland, 206-209.
- Waterloo, 248, 249
- Weather, 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.