Winter Sports in Switzerland

Winter Sports in Switzerland

BY E. F. BENSON WITH 12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY C. FLEMING WILLIAMS AND 47 REPRODUCTIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY MRS. AUBREY LE BLOND LONDON GEORGE ALLEN & COMPANY, LTD. 44 & 45 RATHBONE PLACE 1913 [All rights reserved] {iv} Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh {v} There is an amazingly silly proverb which quite mistakenly tells us that seeing is believing. The most ordinary conjurer at a village entertainment will prove the falsity of this saying. For who has not seen one of these plausible mountebanks put a watch into a top-hat, and, after clearly smashing it into a thousand pieces with a pestle, stir up the disintegrated fragments with a spoon and produce an omelette? Or who is so unacquainted with the affairs of the village schoolroom at Christmas as not to have seen a solid billiard-ball or a lively canary squeezed out of the side of a friends head? Such phenomena are by no means rare, and occur periodically all over England. The observers eyes have told him that he has seen such things, and the verb to see is merely a compendious expression to indicate that on the evidence of your eyes such or such a phenomenon has actually occurred. But no one believes that the disintegrated watch has become an omelette though ocular evidenceseeinginsists that it has. It was a conjuring trick. And this leads me to the consideration of the phenomena on which this whole book is based. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 60153
Author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Release Date: Aug 23, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Williams, C. Fleming