Chapter X: The Alps in Literature (2)

The pioneers had every advantage, a new subject for literary expression, a new field of almost untouched exploration, phrases that had yet to become trite, emotions which never become trite though their expression is apt to fall into a rut. And yet it seems doubtful whether they wrote more freely and more truly than some of those who are writing to-day. In some directions, mountain descriptions have advanced as well as mountain craft. We have no Leslie Stephen and no Whymper, but the best pens at work in _The Alpine Journal_ have created a nobler literature than that which we find in the early numbers. “_The Alpine Journal_,” remarked a worthy president, is “the champagne of Alpine literature.” Like the best champagne, it is often very dry. The early numbers contained little of literary value beyond Gosset’s great account of the avalanche which killed Bennen, and some articles by Stephen and Whymper. Neither Stephen nor Whymper wrote their best for the club journal. _The Cornhill_ contains Stephen’s best work, and Whymper gave the pick of his writing to the Press. One may safely say that the first forty years of the club journal produced nothing better than recent contributions such as “The Alps” by A. D. Godley, “Two Ridges of the Grand Jorasses” by G. W. Young, “The Middle Age of the Mountaineer” by Claud Schuster, “Another Way of Alpine Love” by F. W. Bourdillon, “The Ligurian Alps” by R. L. A. Irving, and “Alpine Humour” by C. D. Robertson. Nor has good work been confined to _The Alpine Journal_. The patient seeker may find hidden treasures in the pages of some score of journals devoted to some aspect of the mountains. The new century has opened well, for it has given us Prof. Collie’s _Exploration in the Himalaya and other Mountain Ranges_, a book of unusual charm. It has given us Mr. Young’s mountain poems, for which we would gladly jettison a whole library of Alpine literature. It has given us _Peaks and Pleasant Pastures_, and a fine translation of Guido Rey’s classic work on the Matterhorn. With these books in mind we can safely assert that the writer quoted at the beginning of this chapter was unduly pessimistic, and that England has contributed her fair share to the subjective literature of the Alps.

Let us hope that this renaissance of wonder will suffer no eclipse; let us hope that the Alps may still offer to generations yet unborn avenues of discovery beside those marked “No Information” in the pages of _The Climber’s Guides_. The saga of the Alps will not die from lack of material so long as men find in the hills an inspiration other than the challenge of unclimbed ridges and byways of mountain joy uncharted in the ordnance survey.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Alpine Club collects every book dealing with the mountains and also most of the articles that appear in the Press and Magazines. The Catalogue of the Alpine Club Library should, therefore, be the most complete bibliography in existence. The additions to the Club Library are published from time to time in _The Alpine Journal_.

The most useful bibliographies of Alpine book that are accessible to the general reader are contained in _Ueber Eis and Schnee_, by Gottlieb Studer (1869-1871), and _Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide Books_, by the Rev. W. A. B. Coolidge (1889).

Perhaps the most thorough book on every phase of the Alps, sporting, social, political and historical is _The Alps in Nature and History_, by the Rev. W. A. B. Coolidge (1908).

For the Geology of the Alps and the theory of Glacier Motion there are no better books than _The Glaciers of the Alps_, by John Tyndall (1860; reprinted in the Everyman Library), and _The Building of the Alps_, by T. G. Bonney (1912).

For the practical side of mountaineering, _Mountaineering_, by C. T. Dent (Badminton Library), is good but somewhat out of date.

The best modern book on the theory and practice of mountaineering is _Modern Mountain Craft_, edited by G. W. Young (1914). This book is in the Press. It contains chapters on the theory of mountain craft in summer and winter, and in addition a very able summary of the characteristic of mountaineering in the great ranges beyond Europe as described by the various experts for the particular districts.

Winter mountaineering and ski-ing are dealt with in _The Ski-Runner_, by E. C. Richardson (1909); _Ski-ing for Beginners and Mountaineers_, by W. R. Rickmers (1910); _How to Ski_, by Vivian Caulfield (1910); _Ski-ing_, by Arnold Lunn (1912).

For the general literature of mountaineering the reader has a wide choice. We cannot attempt a comprehensive bibliography, but the following books are the most interesting of the many hundred volumes on the subject.

The early history of mountaineering is dealt with in Mr. Coolidge’s books referred to above. There is a good historical sketch in the first chapter of the Badminton volume. The most readable book on the early pioneers is _The Early Mountaineers_, by Francis Gribble (1899). _The Story of Alpine Climbing_, by Francis Gribble (1904), is smaller than _The Early Mountaineers_; it can be obtained for a shilling.

We shall, where possible, confine our list to books written in English. This is not possible for the earlier works, as English books do not cover the ground.

_Descriptio Montis Fracti juxta Lucernam._ By Conrad Gesner. 1555.

_De Alpibus Commentarius._ By Josias Simler. 1574.

_Coryate’s Crudities._ By T. Coryate. 1611. This book contains the
passage quoted on p. 15. It has recently been reprinted.

_Diary (Simplon, etc.)._ By John Evelyn. 1646. (Reprinted in the
Everyman Library.)

_Remarks on Several Parts of Switzerland._ By J. Addison. 1705.

_Itinera per Helvetiæ Alpinas Regiones Facta._ By Johann Jacob
Scheuchzer. 1723.

_Die Alpen._ By A. von Haller. 1732.

_An Account of the Glaciers or Ice Alps in Savoy._ By William
Windham and Peter Martel. 1744.

_Travels in the Alps of Savoy._ By J. D. Forbes. 1843.

_Mont Blanc._ By Albert Smith. 1852.

_The Tour of Mont Blanc._ By J. D. Forbes. 1855.

_Wanderings among the High Alps._ By Alfred Wills. 1856.

_Summer Months among the Alps._ By T. W. Hinchcliff. 1857. (Very
scarce.)

_The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps._ By S. W. King. 1858.

_Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers._ (First Series.) 1859. (Scarce and
expensive.)

_Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers._ (Second Series.) (Two volumes.)
(Scarce.) 1862.

_The Eagles’ Nest._ By A. Wills. 1860. (Scarce.)

_The Glaciers of the Alps._ By John Tyndall. 1860.

_Across Country from Thonon to Trent._ By D. W. Freshfield. 1865.

_The Alps in 1864._ By A. W. Moore. (Privately reprinted.) (Very
scarce, reprinted 1902.)

_The High Alps without Guides._ By A. B. Girdlestone. (Scarce.)
1870.

_Scrambles among the Alps._ By Edward Whymper. 1871. This famous
book went into several editions. It has been reprinted in Nelson’s
Shilling Library. The original editions with their delightful
wood-cuts cannot be bought for less than a pound, but are well
worth the money.

_The Playground of Europe._ By Leslie Stephen. 1871. This classic
can be bought for 3_s._ 6_d._ in the Silver Library. The original
edition is scarce and does not contain the best work.

_Hours of Exercise in the Alps._ By J. Tyndall. 1871.

_Italian Alps._ By D. W. Freshfield. 1876.

_The High Alps in Winter._ By Mrs. Fred Burnaby (Mrs. Le Blond.)
1883.

_Above the Snow Line._ By C. T. Dent. 1885.

_The Pioneers of the Alps._ By C. D. Cunningham and W. de W. Abney.
(An account of the great guides.) 1888.

_My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus._ By A. F. Mummery. 1895.
(Reprinted in Nelson’s Shilling Library.)

_The Alps from End to End._ By Sir Martin Conway. 1895. This has
been reprinted in Nelson’s Shilling Library.

_The Annals of Mont Blanc._ By C. E. Mathews. 1898.

_Climbing in the Himalaya and other Mountain Ranges._ By Norman J.
Collie, 1902. Includes some excellent chapters on the Alps.

_The Alps._ Described by Sir Martin Conway. Illustrated by A.
O. M’Cormick. 1904. A cheap edition without Mr. M’Cormick’s
illustrations has been issued in 1910.

_My Alpine Jubilee._ By Frederic Harrison. 1908.

_Recollections of an Old Mountaineer._ By Walter Larden. 1910.

_Peaks and Pleasant Pastures._ By Claud Schuster. 1911.

The poetry of Mountaineering as distinct from the poetry of mountains is found in--

_Wind and Hill._ By G. W. Young. 1909.

This book is out of print. The mountain poems have been reprinted in--

_The Englishman in the Alps._ An Anthology edited by Arnold Lunn.
1913. This Anthology includes long extracts from one to five
thousand words chosen from the best of Alpine prose and poetry.

Other Alpine Anthologies are--

_The Voice of the Mountains._ By E. Baker and F. E. Ross. 1905.

_In Praise of Switzerland._ By Harold Spender. 1912.

The reader will find good photographs very useful. The earliest Alpine photographer to achieve distinct success was Mr. Donkin, whose excellent photographs can be bought cheaply. Signor Sellâs--the supreme artist in mountain photography--also sells his work. Messrs. Abraham of Keswick have photographed with thoroughness the Alps and the rock climbs of Cumberland and Wales. Their best work is reproduced in _The Complete Mountaineer_. (1908.)

INDEX

Abbühl, Arnold, 96

Aggasiz, 104-10

Aiguille, Mont, 29-30

Almer, Christian, 125, 129

Alpine Club, the, 130

_Alpine Journal, The_, 73, 249

_Alps in 1864, The_, 135

_Annals of Mont Blanc, The_, 60, 134

Arkwright, Captain, 117

Ball, John, 118-19, 130

Balmat, Jacques, 60-81

Balmat (in Wills’s guide), 125-9

Beaupré, 30

Beck, Jean Joseph, 86-89

Belloc, Hilaire, 226

Bennen, 154, 157-8

Berkeley, 15

Blackwell, 112

Blackwood, Algernon, 229-30

Blanc, Mont, 47, 60-81, 121-4, 187

Blond, Mrs. Le, 200

Bonney, Prof., 133

Bourrit, 54-9, 60, 74-80, 220

Bremble, 15

Buet, the, 49-50

Byron, 215-17

Canigou, Pic, 30

Carbonnière, Ramond de, 214-15

Carrel, J. A., 152-83

Carrel, J. J., 152-3, 154

Cawood, 189

Charles VII, 29

Charpentier, 103

Clement, 53

Coleridge, 217

Colgrove, 187

Collie, Prof., 250

Conway, Sir Martin, 247

Coolidge, Mr., 44, 129

Coryat’s _Crudities_, 15

Croz, 163-80

Cust, 189

Davies, 136

Dent du Midi, 53

Desor, 105

Dobell, Sydney, 231

Dollfus-Ausset, 106

Douglas, Lord Francis, 163-80

Dragons in the Alps, 40-42

Dübi, Dr., 72-3

Dumas, Alexandre, 62-72

Dürer, 18-19

_Early Mountaineers, The_, 27, 214

Fairbanks, Rev. Arthur, 188

Farrar, Captain, 97-101

Finsteraarhorn, 96-101

Forbes, J. D., 116-18

Freshfield, Mr. Douglas, 12, 29, 72, 247

Gersdorf, Baron von, 73-9

Gesner, Conrad, 33-9

Giordani, Pietro, 89

Giordano, 159, 161-3, 168

Girdlestone, the Rev. A. B., 187-8

Glockner, The Gross, 92-4

Godley, A. D., 249

Gorret, Aimé, 152-3, 181.

Gribble, Mr. Francis, 26, 44, 46

Grove, Francis, 187

Guideless climbing, 138-43, 185-9

Gurk, Bishop of, 93-4

Haddington, Lord, 45

Hadow, 163-80

Haller, 213

Hamel, Dr., 117

Hannibal, 22-3

Hardy, 135-6

Hawkins, Vaughan, 153-4

_High Alps without Guides, The_, 187-8

Hinchcliffe, 130, 135

Holland, Mrs., 231

Holland, Philemon, 23

Hôtel des Neuchâtelois, 104

_Hours of Exercise in the Alps_, 131, 153-4

Hudson, 163-80, 187

Hugi, 97-100

Hugisattel, 100

Irving, Mr. R. L. A., 249

James, William, 107-9

John of Austria, Archduke, 94-5

Jungfrau, 96

Kaisergebirge, 199

Kennedy, E. S., 187

Kipling, 228-9, 232

Lauener, Ulrich, 125-9

Lauteraarhorn, 109

Luc, De, 48-50

Martel, Peter, 45-6

Marti, 16, 36-7

Masefield, John, 232

Mathews, C. E., 46-8, 134-5

Mathews, William, 130

Matterhorn, the, 147-84, 189

Meredith, George, 224

Meyers, the, 85-101

Monboso, 28

Moore, Dr. John, 46

Moore, W. A., 135, 199

Morris, William, 231

Morse, Mr. 189, 191

Mountaineering in Great Britain, 193-4, 197-9

Mountaineering, modern, 185-207

Mountaineering in winter, 199-207

Mountaineering without guides, 138-43, 185-9

Mountains in Art, 17-20

Mountains in Literature, 208-50

Mountains, Mediæval attitude to, 1-21

Müller, 30-31

Müller, John, 33

Mummery, 183-4, 191, 246

Murith, Prior, 50, 52, 53

_My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus_, 191

Myers, F. W. H., 231

Ortler, the, 94-5

Paccard, Dr., 67-80

Parker, Messrs., 153

Parrot, Dr., 90

Paulcke, 208

_Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers_, 235, 239-40

_Peaks and Pleasant Pastures_, 250

_Penhall_, 184

Perrandier, 103

Peter III, 30

Petrarch, 26-7

Pic du Midi, 30

Pichler, Joseph, 94

Pilate, Pontius, 31-2

Pilatus, 31-4

Placidus à Spescha, 82-4

_Playground of Europe, The_, 131, 132-3

Pococke, Dr., 45

Pope, Hugh, 199

Popocatapetl, 30

Punta Giordani, 89

Purtscheller, 189

Rey, Guido, 152-9

Robertson, Donald, 235-6, 249

Rochefoucauld, Duc de, 46

Rosa, Monte, 28-9, 85-91, 129

Rotario of Asti, 24

Rousseau, 9, 212-3, 214

Ruskin, 221-4

Salis, Ulysses von 151

Saussure, De, 46-8, 60

Scheuchzer, 39-43

Schuster, Sir Claud, 241, 249, 250

_Scrambles in the Alps_, 133-4

Sella, Quintino, 159, 161-3, 168

Shelley, 218-19

Simler, 37-9

Ski-ing, 200-7

Smith, Albert, 119-24

Stephen, Sir Leslie, 131-3, 136-7, 140-1, 243, 245

Stockhorn, 30-1

Stogdon, Mr. John, 188

Studer, Gottlieb, 109-10

Swinburne, 231

Symonds, Addington, 224-6

Taugwalders, the, 163-80

Tennyson, Lord, 230-1

Theodule, 12

Titlis, 44

Tödi, the, 83

_Tour of Mont Blanc, The_, 110

Tuckett, 136-7

Tyndall, John, 131, 157-8

Ulrich of Württemberg, 32

Velan, the, 50-2

Venetz, 103

Ventoux, Mont, 26

Vinci, Leonardo da, 19-20, 27-8

Vogt, 105

Walker, Mr. Horace, 199

Watt, Joachim von, 32

Weston, Mr., 12

Wetterhorn, the, 109, 111-12, 125-9

Whymper, Edward, 133, 147-84

Wicks, Mr., 189

Wills, Mr. Justice, 111-14, 125-9

Wilson, Mr., 189

Windham, 45

Young, Sir George, 135

Young, G. Winthrop, 230, 249, 250

Young, Norman, 11

Zumstein, 90-1

Zumstein Spitze, 91

Zsigmondy, 189

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Mr. Gribble’s _Early Mountaineers_, Chap. V., where the arguments on each side are skilfully summarised.

[2] Not “The Tirol,” still less “The Austrian Tirol,” but “Tirol.” We do not speak of “The Scotland” or “The British Scotland.”

[3] The origin of the Alpine Club is, to some extent, a matter of dispute, the above is the view usually entertained.

[4] Mount Blanc is divided between France and Italy; and the Italian frontier crosses Monte Rosa.

[Transcriber’s Note:

Page 255, Index entry “Gedley, A. D., 249”, changed to read “Godley, A. D., 249” and moved to appropriate spot in index.

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]