Surely the Wengern Alp must be precisely the loveliest place in this world.

Tekin Alp (like most Turkish publicists and politicians since 1908) is a Macedonian, and is profoundly impressed by the methods which the other nationalities there employed to the discomfiture of the Turks themselves.

Their name is derived from their height, Alp being an old Celtic appellation for "a lofty mountain"; Caesar crosses them with five legions, G. i. 10; sends Galba to open a free passage over them to the Roman merchants, G. iii.

For the more extended climbs or for excursions in the direction of the Schwarzsee, the Staffel Alp or the Trift, Zermatt is the starting point.

The Alps are not especially SwissI used to think they were Englishthey belong equally to four nations of Europe; they are the sanatorium and the diversorium of the civilized world, the refuge, the asylum, the second home of men and women famous throughout the centuries for arts, literature, thought, religion.

One feels that they have done with earth; one can fancy them a band of white-robed kings and priests forever ministering in that great temple of which the Alps and the Apennines are the walls and the Cathedral the heart and centre.

To young and old, to strong and weak, to wise and foolish alike, the Alps are a second fatherland.

And since Mr. Secretary will give us no account of this Gentleman, I admit "the Alps and Apennines" instead of the Editor, to be "Commentators of his Works," which, as the Editor says, "have raised a demand for correctness."

Some oneI am inclined to think it was myselfonce said that he never wished to go to Switzerland, because he feared that the Alps would be greasy with being climbed.

The Alps are the poetry of inorganic creation, and a week or two spent on their lakes, in their valleys and gorges, amid the high waterfalls or upon their snowfields and glaciers, teaches one to associate new meanings to the words, grand,

During the weary years of the Punic war when Hannibal drew his fresh recruits from the Po Valley, the determination grew ever stronger that the Alps should become Rome's barrier line on the North.