On road to Lucerne. 10. Lucerne.

On road to Lucerne. 10. Lucerne.

DALMATIA MIRAMAR GENEVA REGATTA DAY ON LAKE GENEVA VITZNAU, THE LAKE TERMINUS OF THE RIGI RAILROAD RHINE FALLS NEAR SCHAFFHAUSEN PONTRESINA IN THE ENGADINE ST. MORITZ IN THE ENGADINE FRIBOURG BERNE VIVEY, LAKE GENEVA THE TURNHALLE, ZURICH INTERLAKEN LUCERNE VIADUCTS ON AN ALPINE RAILWAY THE WOLFORT VIADUCT BALMATSAUSSURE MONUMENT IN CHAMONIX ROOFED WOODEN

AT LUCERNE THE CASTLE OF CHILLON CLOUD EFFECT ABOVE INTERLAKEN DAVOS IN WINTER [Illustration: THE KURSAL AT MARIENBAD] [Illustration: MARIENBAD, AUSTRIA]

From Lucerne over the Brunig, from Meiringen over the Grimsel come the travelers, passing on their way the Lake of Brienz, with the waterfall of the Giessbach, on its southern side.

Berne, Geneva, Zurich, and Lucerne are places possessing notable churches, museums, and monuments of the past, having a social life of their own and being distinguished in some special way, as centers of culture and education.

As you approach Altdorf from Flüelen, on the Lake of Lucerne, by the long white road, the first houses you reach are large structures of the conventional village type, plain, but evidently the homes of well-to-do people, and some even adorned with family coats-of-arms.

How fine that great pasture beside the River Reus, with its short, juicy, Alpine grass, in sight of the snow-capped Bristenstock, at one end of the valley, and of the waters of Lake Lucerne at the other!

LUCERNE BY VICTOR

TISSOT A height crowned with embattled ramparts that bristle with loop-holed turrets; church towers mingling their graceful spires and peaceful crosses with those warlike edifices; dazzling white villas, planted like tents under curtains of verdure; tall houses with old red skylights on the roofsthis is our first glimpse of the Catholic and warlike city of Lucerne.

In summer Lucerne is the Hyde Park of Switzerland.

Lucerne began as a nest of monks, hidden in an orchard like a nest of sparrows.

They sold to King Rudolf all the property they possest at Lucerne and in Unterwalden; and thus the town passed into the hands of the Hapsburgs.

When the first Cantons, after expelling the Austrian bailiffs, had declared their independence, Lucerne was still one of Austria's advanced posts.

Lucerne is now the chief summer station of the twenty-two Cantons.

The great quay of Lucerne is delightful; as good as the seashore at Dieppe or Trouville.

The situation of the city is essentially beautiful, reminding one, in a general way, of that of Geneva, Lucerne, or Thunat the outlet of a lake, and at the point of issue of a swift river.

Lucerne was the first to join; then came Zurich, Glarus, Zug, Bern, etc.

[Illustration: LUCERNE]

AT LUCERNE]

* I wanted food and fresh running water, and walked from the engine half a mile through fields of lucerne whose luxuriance quite hid the foot-paths, and reached my shoulder.

The nucleus of Swiss freedom was the German-speaking cantons about the Lake of Lucerne; Tell was a German, and he was glorified by the German Schiller.

Another underwent the same punishment for pursuing his usual course of tillage, and sowing part of his ground with lucerne, instead of employing the whole for wheat; and every where these people became the objects of persecution, both in their persons and property.

The Polcat, Marterne, and the rich skin'd Lucerne I know to chase, the Roe, the wind out-stripping Isgrin himself, in all his bloody anger I can beat from the bay, and the wild Sounder Single, and with my arm'd staff, turn the Boar, Spight of his foamy tushes, and thus strike him; 'Till he fall down my feast.

When the Garrows left Florence for the summer, I visited them at Lucerne, and subsequently met them at Venice.