Abstract
THIS book is a reminder that Switzerland is ready once more to becom “the playground of Europe,” and it is especially an appeal to English visitors. The numerous signed essays include one by Mr. A. Latt on “English influences on Swiss intellectual life,” recalling many pleasant details of rapprochement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Mr. Schaederlin writes finely of the brave hardihood of alpine trees. Good and readable as the essays are, the great charm of the book lies in its illustrations. The well-known scenes of tourist gatherings are relegated to the advertisement pages at the end, and throughout this modestly styled Almanac we are given an exquisite series of photo graphs, printed in brown, of “trees and woodlands” in the Alps. Each of these appeals delightfully to the naturalist, who will promptly consult the calendar and the tables of exchange.
Swiss Travel Almanac.
Edited by the Swiss Tourist Information Office. Summer Season, 1922. Pp. 112. (Olten, Switzerland: O. Walter, Ltd.; London: Swiss Federal Railways, egent Street, 1922).
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C., G. Swiss Travel Almanac . Nature 109, 809 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109809b0
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