IX.  ALPINE RESORTS

The call of the mountains—­By Frederick Harrison

Interlaken and the Jungfrau—­By Archibald Campbell Knowles

The altdorf of William tell—­By W.D.  M’Crackan

Lucerne—­By Victor Tissot

Zurich—­By W.D.  M’Crackan

The rigi—­By W.D.  M’Crackan

Chamouni—­an avalanche—­By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Zermatt—­By Archibald Campbell Knowles

Pontresina and st. Moritz—­By Victor Tissot

Geneva—­By Francis H. Gribble

The castle of chillon—­By Harriet Beecher Stowe

By Rail up the Gorner-Grat—­By Archibald Campbell Knowles

Through the st. Gothard into Italy—­By Victor Tissot

X. ALPINE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING

First attempts half A century ago—­By Edward Whymper

First to the top O the Matterhorn—­By Edward Whymper

The lord Francis Douglas tragedy—­By Edward Whymper

An ascent of Monte Rosa (1858)—­By John Tyndall

Mont Blanc ascended, Huxley going part way—­By John Tyndall

The Jungfrau-Joch—­By Sir Leslie Stephen

XI.  OTHER ALPINE TOPICS

The great st. Bernard hospice—­By Archibald Campbell Knowles

Avalanches—­By Victor Tissot

Hunting the chamois—­By Victor Tissot

The celebrities of Geneva—­By Francis H. Gribble

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME VI

  Frontispiece
  the Matterhorn

  Kursaal at Marienbad

  Marienbad, Austria

  Monastery of st. Ulric and AFRA, Augsburg

  Monastery of MOeLK on the Danube above Vienna

  Memorial tablet and road in the iron gate of the Danube

  Quay at Fiume

  Royal palace in Budapest

  Houses of Parliament, Budapest

  Suspension bridge over the Danube at Budapest