In these latter days a sort of, mountaineering on wheels, is _porsible, and Mr, Watetlow's book, which reliable guide for the shows how it opens up wide and entrancing vistas of happy travel. The idea of the French, in some respects successors of the road-makers, in opening jer Route des Alpes in 192% to gain an important advantage in the competition of France with Switzerland as a witter resort. The French Alps are not so well served with railways 8 Swit lzcrland, and hotel accommodation there is, as yet, on a far less lavish Iscale. Yet, thanks to the excellent roads and the encouragement given ito motorists, the popularity of this jelorious mountain touring ground increases year by year. Every' summer adds to the numbers who! explore the mountains of Dauphiny jand Savoy, and, such is the spacijousness of these uplifted lands, there Jean be no danger of over-crowding jor of the loss of local amenities. Not photographé, nor even' Mr. Wa-
Mr. William lo Queux is credited with the strange remark—probably explained by its context, denied equal publicity—that everyone dreads the thought of snow. This sounds like a terrible heresy, when we think of winter sports, from the street urchins' snow-ball skirmish to the thrills of the Cresta Ran and: the ski-ing course. A winter without. now is no winter, and the Tusxarioug souls who fly to" sunny. southern shores to escape it must surely have in their veins some admixture, of thin blood alien to that of the hardy Briton. On the other hand be terror in the coming of the snow. Few spectacles of wild nature in these latitudes are more menacing than the approach across the moune tains of low-flying snow-squall on a dark day. No evidence of the white purity of the individual fakes is there in the sombre' hive-black density that swept across the tegolate tops engulfing one efter th other, till its frst shadow and its first cold whirling morsels are about coming: the lonely walker who has ser its
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