portant excursion from the principal centres, and a full Hotel Guide, with scale of prices, besides Key, Maps and plans of Routes that enable the traveller almost to dispense with guides.-W. J. ADAMS, 59, Fleet Street; HENRY BLACKLOCK, & Co., Manchester; cloth, 5s.

We think it desirable to refer to the principal AUTHORITIES consulted in this work when we have not drawn from personal knowledge:-Alpenreisen, KOHL; Alpenstock, or Sketches of Swiss Scenery and Manners, LATROBE; ALPINE CLUB's Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers; Alpine Highways and Byeways, Mrs. FRESHFIELD; Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria and the Tyrol, BONER; Die Alpen in Natur und Lebens Bildern, BERLEPSCH; Die deutschen Colonien in Piedmont, A. SCHOTT; Dolomite Mountains GILBERT AND CHURCHILL; Eagle's Nest in the Valley of Sixt, WILLS; Geschichte der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft (History of the Swiss Confederation), J. MÜLLER; Glaciers of the Alps, TYNDALL; High Alps without Guides, GIRDLESTONE; Histoire, Topographie, Antiquités, Usages et Dialectes des Hautes Alpes, LADONCETTE ; Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps, BROCKEDON; Italian Valleys of the Alps, KING; Lake Habitations, Dr. KELLER (translated by G. Lee); Mountaineering, TYNDALL; Naturhistorische Alpenreise, HUGI; Neue Untersuchungen, SCHLAGINTWEIT; On Foot through the Tyrol, W. WHITE; Physician's Holiday, Sir J. FORBES; Promenades Préhistoriques, MORTILLET; Sammlung absoluter Höhen, ZIEGLER; Schweizerführer, VON TSCHUDI; Schweizerkunde, BERLEPSCH; Summer Tour in the Grisons, Mrs. FRESHFIELD; The Regular Swiss Round, JONES; Tour of Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa, Prof. J. D. FORBES; Tour round Monte Rosa, A LADY; Waldenses, or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, etc., illustrated, BEATTIE; Wanderings in the High Alps, WILLS; Where there's a Will there's a Way, HUDSON AND KENNEDY; Scrambles in the Alps, WHYMPER.

MAPS.-Swiss Government Survey; Leuthold's, Keller's, and others. The Alpine Club's Map, now in progress.

COURIERS.-Apply to Mr. W. J. ADAMS, 59, Fleet Street. PASSPORTS are not asked for in Switzerland, but they are always useful on the Continent.

CUSTOMS.-Travellers with cigars, or cotton and woollen dresses should declare them.

The following are the lines already completed; for particulars of which see BradSHAW's Continental Railway Guide.

1. Swiss Central (Schweizerische Centralbahn). Bâle to Olten, Sursee, and Lucerne, 56 miles long. Olten to Aarau, 9 miles. Olten to Herzogenbuchsee, Berne, and Thun for Interlaken, Herzogenbuchsee to Soleure (or Solothurne) and Bienne (or Biel). Berne to Fribourg and Lausanne: with branch, Romonte to Bulle.

2. Swiss North Eastern (Schweizerische Nordostbahn). Aarau to Brugg, Turgi, Baden, and Zürich (63 miles from Bâle; with a branch from Turgi to Waldshut, on the Rhine. Zürich to Wallisellen, Winterthur, Frauenfeld, Weinfelden, to Romanshorn, on Lake Constance (114 miles from Bâle); with a branch from Winterthur to Schaffhausen. Zürich to Bulach.

3. United Swiss (Vereinigte Schweizerbahnen). Zürich to Wallisellen, Uster, Rapperschwyl, Wesen, Sargans, and Chur (or Coire); with a branch from Wesen to Glarus. Winterthur (on the North Eastern) to Wyl (thence to Ebnat-Kappel), St. Gall, Rorschach (on Lake Constance), Rheineck, Sargans, and Coire, where there is a connection by diligence over the Splügen, to Milan, &c.

4, West Swiss (de l'Ouest Suisse). Bienne, on the Central, to Neufchâtel, Yverdun, Lausanne, and Geneva, and branches from Neufchâtel to Locle, and to Pontarlier. Lausanne to Villeneuve, on Lake Leman, Bex, and St. Maurice. Bouveret to St. Maurice, Martigny, Sion, and Sierre, by the Ligne d'Italie.

5. Zürich, Zug, and Lucerne.

6. The Berne government rail between Langnau, Berne, and Biel.

7. Rigi railway, from Vitznau to Staffelhohe.

8. The Bruuig-bahn, from Darligen to Interlaken.

The lines connecting the Swiss rails with those of Bavaria and Austrian-Tyrol via Bregenz, Lindau, Feldkirch, and Bludenz, are now open. The railway to Coire is to be continued to the Alps, via Dissentis and Perdatsh, where a tunnel, 15 miles long, commenced 1861, at a height of 5,000 feet, will penetrate the ridge of mountains, into Val Blegno, and join the railways on the Italian side. The St. Gotthard Tunnel, 9 miles long, in connection with a line from Zug and Altdorf, is in progress. Fifty pounds of baggage are allowed free of charge on some lines; on others laggage is paid for. On the Lakes Steamers run in correspondence with the railways,