Here and There among the Alps. By the Hon. Frederika
Plunket. (Longmans.)—As people are at least beginning to think about possible Swiss tours for the year that now is, we may take the opportunity of commending this little book to our readers. Miss Plunket tells us that she is chiefly actuated in writing it by "the wish to persuade other ladies to depart more than is their usual habit from the ordinary routine of a Swiss summer tour." She seems herself to have seen something of Tyrol and Carinthia, as well as of the Italian side of the Alps, and her experience will be useful. All that she says is marked by good-sense She recognises the limits of what the average of a woman's powers can do, and counsels prudence and that kind of courage which, whenever there is any risk, is most useful to a woman,— the courage of trust. Sensible, too, are her remarks on the accommodation to be found ; and she says a good word, not without some reason, on the tariff of prices. Some people expect to find a leg of mutton and a bottle of wine cost no more after they have been carried up five thousand feet on a mule's, pos- sibly on a man's back, than they do when the meadow or the vineyard are within a stone's-throw.
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