Over the Alps on a Bicycle. By Mrs. Pennell. (T.
Fisher Unwin.)—We have already had a good many accounts of tours made on wheels, but Mrs. Pennell, as she tells us herself, is the first woman to ride over nine Swiss passes in a week, and she forestalls, in her envoi, the natural question as to why she did it, by telling us it was for pleasure, though but for that assurance one would not have suspected it, so prejudiced does she seem to be against the Swiss and all pertaining to them. It was, we fancy, the " record " pride that was the root of a good many of her troubles,—work like that of a dock labourer, exposure to drenching rains and pitiless sun. A bicycle tour in Switzerland might be so charming a way of spending a holiday that we hope the record of Mrs. Pennelrs rides will not deter other tourists.
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