GROUP FROM THE CRUCIFIXION--SAN VIVALDO _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE BY THE PORT OF LOVERE 20 To the mind curious in contrasts--surely one of the chief pleasures of travel--there can be no better preparation for a descent into Italy than a sojourn among the upper Swiss valleys. To pass from the region of the obviously picturesque--the country contrived, it would seem, for the delectation of the _cœur à poésie facile_--to that sophisticated landscape where the face of nature seems moulded by the passions and imaginings of man, is one of the most suggestive transitions in the rapidly diminishing range of…
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