SWITZERLAND. By Frank Fox.
This volume will give to the reader a good knowledge not only of the scenery of Europe's playground but of the Swiss people and their life. A little nation which has supplied Europe at various times with bands of both heroes and waiters, which is celebrated alike for generous hospitality to refugees and the most strictly commercial hospitality to tourists, has a paradoxical aspect whatever way it is regarded. The author seeks to describe rather than to explain the Swiss, but gives a closely compressed record of their early history as some key to the curiously contradictory elements of their national character.