Travel Pamphlets Reviewed
[From time to time, in this page, we notice publications sent to us by travel agencies and shipping companies, which we think may be of interest to readers. En. Spectator.] . ... . :
OBERAMMERGAU.
AN illustrated leaflet containing information as to the accommo- dation rates fixed by the Oberammergau Passion Play Committee, reservation of seats in the 'theatre, which has accommodation for about 5,000 people, and dates of the performances throughout the year is obtainable from Binkfords Travel Service, 21-24 Coekspur Street, S.W. 1. It provides inforniation for the many tourists who will visit the little village Of Oberaminergau in the Bavarian Alps during 1930 to see the 'famous Passion Play performed by the villagers. They may now book seats in Landon for the Passion Play as easily as they might reserve two stalls- for a London theatre, while booking for a through journey -and reserving accommodation in the village is as 0rimple•as if Oberannnergau were in the Highlands of Scotland instead of the Ammer Mountains. The Oberammergau Passion Play is of extraordinary historical interest. Originating from a vow made :by the inhabitants in 1633, which was made in the hope of staying a plague then raging>, the play is performed every ten years, and about 700 actors take part. The villagers, who are mainly engaged in making toys and carving crucifixes, rosaries and iniagei of saints, regard the Paseion Play as a 'solemn act of religious worship. . The prineiPal parts are usually hereditary in certain fainWes, and are assigned with 'regard tO Moral character
as well as dramatic ability. • -- • • • - • - •
ZERMATT WINTER SPORTS " CAMPS."
We have received from Dr. Claud Fothergill, of Hensol, Chorley Wood, -Herts, leaflets desdribing -the arrangements' for the whiter sports " camps " for the season 1929-1930 at Hospental, planned by the Zermatt Camps and Tours Union. The Camps are for " university men and women, public schoolboys and girls, ,their relatives, friends and Others who care to join," and the parties will be housed in the Meyerhof Hotel. Hospental is about one and a half miles from Andermatt, which is reached from London in about seventeen hours. There are ski-ing, curling and ice hockey, and bobsleigh and toboggan -iuns.. The parties; of which there are four, are arranged as -follows c—(1) Debembtlir -27th' January 10th. (1a) December 20th—DoceMber '28th. • (2) ianuary 9th— January 23rd. (2a) January 9th—January 18th. Parties la and .2a are short period parties for.thoso who :cannot. spare the time to take the longer dates. The inclusive fee. of $17 17p. for each camper covers London-Dover third class return. Dover-CrOsehenen second return via Laon, Bale, Lucernegaid third.retuin On the short mountain railway Goschenen-Andermatt, twelve full days hotel accommo- dation in Switzerland -including breakfast, lunch, dinner-,, central heating is Amish- bedrooin, electric lighting, hotel tips, kaitax and use Of the ice rinks. For -the " Short Period " Parties the fee is £14 19s. A list of names of clergymen and others who have accom- -panied previous parties is given in the literature at the Union, which, we understand, -has. -a definitely religious .element:: {Over sixty of these " Camps " have now been held, the movement having
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