A THIRD MONTH
IN
SWITZERLAND
THE DUTY and DISCIPLINE of EXTEMPORARYPREACHING.
Second Edition.
New York: C. Scribner & Co.
A WINTER in the UNITED STATES;
Being Table-Talk collected during a Tour through the SouthernConfederation, the Far West, and the Rocky Mountains, &c.
‘We have here a record of the travels of a sagacious and just-mindedman, who saw everything thoroughly, describes it in a perfectly unprejudicedmanner, and refrains from forcing upon us theories of his own.’
Pall Mall Gazette.
London: John Murray.
EGYPT of the PHARAOHS and of the KHEDIVE.
Second Edition.
‘Mr. Zincke speaks like a man of rare powers of perception, with anintense love of nature in her various moods, and an intellectual sympathy,broad and deep as the truth itself.’—Saturday Review.
A MONTH IN SWITZERLAND.
‘There is quite enough in this little volume to arrest the attention of anybodywho cares for an hour’s intercourse with the mind of one who hascarefully pondered some of the deepest problems which affect the physicalwell-being of his fellow-creatures.’—Spectator.
SWISS ALLMENDS, and a WALK to SEE THEM;
Being a Second Month in Switzerland.
‘Here is a magician who can actually make the beaten tracks of Switzerlandmore interesting than Magdala and Coomassie.’—Examiner.
SMITH, ELDER, & CO.: 15 Waterloo Place, London.
BEING A
THIRD MONTH IN SWITZERLAND
BY
F. BARHAM ZINCKE
VICAR OF WHERSTEADAND CHAPLAIN TO THE QUEEN
Rerum natura tota est nusquam magis quam in minimis
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1875
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The sketch contained in this third volume concludesthe triptych of my ‘Months in Switzerland.’ Thefirst volume was issued in ’73, the second last spring.A separate volume has been assigned to each sketch.In the original forecast of the work it was anticipatedthat sufficient range could not be given to it in lessthan three such sketches. So far, then, as that goesits design is completed.
My object has been to present a continuous pictureof the scene, endeavouring throughout to give toits human element such prominence as the occasionmight admit. That has now been done for somethousand miles. Of this con