CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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To Zermatt 1
CHAPTER II.
The Riffel—The Gorner Grat—Sunday—Zermatt—Schwartz See—Mountaineering 11
CHAPTER III.
Walk back to St. Niklaus—Agriculture—Life—Religion in the Valley 21
CHAPTER IV.
I. Peasant-proprietorship in the Valley—II. Landlordism—III. The Era of Capital—IV. Obstructions to the free Interaction of Capital and Land—Their Effects and probable Removal—V. Co-operative Farming not a Step forward 28
CHAPTER V.
Walk to Saas im Grund—Fee, and its Glacier—The Mattmark See 113
CHAPTER VI.
Walk over Monte Moro to Macugnaga, Ponte Grande, and Domo d’Ossola 122
CHAPTER VII.
Walk over the Simplon 131
CHAPTER VIII.
Brieg—Upper Rhone Valley by Char to the Rhone Glacier—Hôtel du Glacier du Rhône 140
CHAPTER IX.
Walk over the Grimsel, by the Aar Valley, Helle Platte, and the Falls of Handeck, to Meiringen 149
CHAPTER X.
Char to Interlaken—Walk over the Wengern Alp to Grindelwald 155
CHAPTER XI.
Interlaken—Char up the Valley of the Kander—Walk over the Gemmi, sleeping at Schwarenbach 163
CHAPTER XII.
Leukabad—Aigle 172
CHAPTER XIII.
The Drama of the Mountains 184
CHAPTER XIV.
On Swiss Hotels 194
CHAPTER XV.
Berne—Swiss Fountains—Zurich—Museum of Relics from ancient Lake-villages—Baur en ville—Récolte des Voyageurs—C’est un pauvre Pays 205
CHAPTER XVI.
A Remark on Swiss Education 218
CHAPTER XVII.
Elsass—Lothringen—Metz—Gravelotte—Mother of the Curé of Ste. Marie aux Chênes—Waterloo 230
CHAPTER XVIII.
How the Observation and Knowledge of Nature, and the Conditions of Society, affect Religion and Theology—An instructive Parallelism—Conclusion 250
INDEX 265
A MONTH IN SWITZERLAND