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].
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