THE JUNGFRAU FROM INTERLAKEN _Frontispiece_
ASCENT OF THE LAUWINEN-THOR _to face page_ 11
THE WEISSHORN FROM THE RIFFEL „ 91
THE MATTERHORN (from a drawing by E. W. Cooke, R. A.) „ 117
RECOVERY OF OUR PORTER „ 149
JOHANN JOSEPH BENNEN „ 201
THE GORGE OF PFEFFERS (showing Erosive Action) „ 219
Nature, thou earliest gospel of the wise,
Thou never-silent hymner unto God;
Thou angel-ladder lost amidst the skies,
Though at the foot we dream upon the sod;
To thee the priesthood of the lyre belong--
They hear religion and reply in song.
If he hath held thy worship undefiled
Through all the sins and sorrows of his youth,
Let the man echo what he heard as child
From the far hill-tops of melodious Truth,
Leaving in troubled hearts some lingering tone
Sweet with the solace thou hast given his own.
LORD LYTTON’S _King Arthur_.
‘The brain,
That forages all climes to hue its cells,
Will not distil the juices it has sucked
To the sweet substance of pellucid thought,
Except for him who hath the secret learned
To mix his blood with sunshine, and to take
The winds into his pulses.’