oup Drawn on a Greek Vase 171

24. Group of Women Clothed in Jacket and Skirt
with "Wasp-like" Waists 185

25. Further Portion of same Group as Fig. 24 186

PLATES

I. Consecutive Poses of the Galloping Horse 27

II. Various Representations of the Gallop 29

III. Representations of the Gallop 31

IV. The Track of the Rising Moon 49

V. Three Figures--Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Lloyd George,
and Mr. Asquith 52

VI. Teeth of the Upper and Lower Jaw of Man 108

VII. Teeth of the Upper and Lower Jaw of the Gibbon 110

VIII. Votary or Priestess of the Goddess to whom Snakes
were Sacred 188

IX. Fresco Drawing of Two Female Acrobats 190

MORE SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR

CHAPTER I

A DAY IN THE OBERLAND

I am writing in early September from Interlaken, one of the loveliest
spots in Europe when blessed with a full blaze of sunlight and only a
few high-floating clouds, but absolutely detestable in dull, rainy
weather, losing its beauty as the fairy scenes of a theatre do when
viewed by dreary daylight. It is the case of the little girl of whom
it is recorded that "When she was good she was very good, and when she
was not she was horrid." This morning, after four days' misconduct,
Interlaken was very good. The tremendous sun-blaze seemed to fill the
valleys with a pale blue luminous vapour, cut sharply by the shadows
of steep hill-sides. Here and there the smoke of some burning weeds
showed up as brightest blue. Far away through the gap formed in the
long range of nearer mountains, where the Luetschine Valley opens into
the vale of Interlaken, the Jungfrau appeared in full majesty,
absolutely brilliant and unearthly. So I walked towards her up the
valley. Zweiluetschinen is the name given to the spot where the valley
divides into two, that to the left leading up to Grindelwald, under
the shadow of the Moench and the Wetterhorn, that to the right bringing
one to Lauterbruennen and the Staubbach waterfall, with the snow-fields
of the Tchingel finally closing the way--over which I climbed years
ago to Ried in the Loetschen Thal.

The autumn crocus w