Abstract
A FLUENT but not too accurate pen, and a general knowledge of the more frequented districts of the Alps appear to be Mr. A. R. Sennctt's chief qualifications for writing this book. It has a compre hensive title, and needs it, for the St. Bernard Pass is hardly more than a thread to connect, if possible, quotations in prose and verse, scraps of science and history, descriptions of scenery, and moralisings on things in general. The author has nothing new to tell us about the St. Bernard, which is not sur prising, for the pass has been often described, and a carriage road now goes the whole way from Martigny to Aosta. Mr. Sennett, however, informs us that Hannibal crossed it “with his vast army,” of which he proceeds to describe the sufferings. Notwithstand ing what has been written by Law, Ellis, Freshfield and others, we are well aware that it is not easy to determine what route Hannibal did follow, but thought that the Great St. Bernard was no longer advocated by anyone who had studied the question.
Across the Great St. Bernard. The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man.
By A. R. Sennett. Pp. xvi + 444 and 111; illustrated. (London: Bemrose and Sons, 1904.)
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B., T. Across the Great St Bernard The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man . Nature 71, 197–198 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071197a0
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