MR. BAILLIE GROHMAN'S WORK ON TYROL. Just published, in crown 8vo. price 148. cloth. TYROL AND THE TYROLESE; THE PEOPLE AND THE LAND, IN THEIR SOCIAL, SPORTING, AND MOUNTAINEERING ASPECTS. By W. A. BAILLIE GROHMAN. With 22 Illustrations engraved on Wood by G. PEARSON. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 'It is seldom that we have read a better book on the Tyrol than this of Mr. GROHMAN'S. . . . . A more real and better book we have not met with for some time.' LITERARY WORLD. 'We can recommend the book as singularly readable from the first chapter to the last, although the author might have shewn more consideration for his readers' nerves had he toned down some of the most thrilling details in his series of hairbreadth escapes.' SATURDAY REVIEW. 'Mr. GROHMAN does not trouble us with much guide-book lore. His favourite routes are among unfrequented valleys, where the tourist who is not disposed to take up his night-quarters in a hay-loft had better not venture, and where the sloping pastures have scarcely footing for a goat; his favourite studies the life of Alpine herdsmen and herdmaiden, of woodcutters and "wild-heuer"; the dance and fray at the village inn-for the Tyrolese is equally ready for either, and, we are grieved to hear, is exceptionally expert in "gouging" an antagonist; or the more dangerous exploits of the poacher and the smuggler in their constant wars with their inveterate enemies the forest guards of the Bavarian frontier. The lover of stories of wild mountain life will find Mr. GROHMAN'S a most delightful volume.' GRAPHIC. ... He does 'Fortunately, Mr. GROHMAN knows how to tell a story. not overload his pages with descriptions of the glory and beauty of the mountains, though a touch here and there enables the reader to perceive how deeply he feels them. Next to accounts of the climbing of peaks and snow-slopes, the most uninteresting kind of literature to ordinary mortals is the literature of sportsmen. Mr. GROHMAN has plenty to tell us about sport; but he always contrives to interest us, because he always contrives to keep the human actor in the foreground, though he does not forget to add something, too, about the habits of the chamois and the blackcock. No intelligent person should visit the country without first reading his book, and those who have no intention of travelling so far will find ACADEMY. quite enough to amuse and interest them between its covers.' 'Mr. GROHMAN states that he has lived many years in the Tyrol, and the reader will very soon discover that he has turned the knowledge thus acquired to admirable account. In forcible language, and in a lively and picturesque style, the writer brings before us the land of his adoption, describes the habits of the people, carries us with him to mountain solitudes in search of the chamois; to the mountain slopes where, in the loneliness of pine forests, the woodcutter pursues his dangerous calling; to the log-huts, 6,000 or 7,000 feet above the sea, where, in even greater loneliness, the Alp-girl spends the summer months guarding her cattle, attending to . Turn where he may in this her dairy, too busy and too healthy to be sad. well-written volume, the reader is sure to find entertainment. The author relates in brief compass and without waste of words the experience he has acquired after many years of active life in the Tyrol, and, extraordinary as some of his adventures are, there is nothing in his mode of telling them to make us question the veracity of the writer.' PALL MALL GAZETTE. London, LONGMANS & CO. |