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IN the early days of mountaineering, when the Alpine climber wished to scoff at guide-books, he referred sarcastically to Murray's Handbook to Switzerland. It was so emphatically a vade mecum for middle-aged prosperity, and was more successful in limiting its information than in restricting its words. But times and editors have changed. The book for several years past has been up to the high standard attained by the other members of the series; and the edition of 1891, of which the present issue is a revision, even improves upon its predecessors. In the initials “W. A. B. C,” appended to the preface, it would be affectation not to recognise the name of one who unites a knowledge of the Alps, unique, perhaps, in its completeness, to an infinite capacity for taking pains.
A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland.
Eighteenth edition. (London: John Murray, 1892.)
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B., T. A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland. Nature 48, 314 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048314a0
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