20 AUGUST 1927, Page 18

The photographs of Swiss scenery which illustrate Rambles in High

Savoy (Longman, 21s.) are truly beautiful. Even without the letterpress it would be worth its not very small price. Many of them were taken by M. Emile Gos, who has already given us the Alps in charming pictures, and, as Mr. Winthrop Young says in his preface, " inspired his sons with a lifelong enthusiasm for all they contained, of human character no less than scenery and adventure." M. Francois Gos, the present author, has followed his admirable descrip- tions of Zermatt and its Valley with this study of Higher Savoy. He writes of the mountains as a man who has not only explored their fastnesses but is at home in their villages and knows the life of the people, their legends, and their songs-

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