. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . LONDONDAVID BOGUE, 3 ST. MARTINS PLACE, 1882 UPft PREFACE. I should perhaps apologise for publishing a workwhich professes to deal with the sanctuaries ofPiedmont, and saying so little about the most im-portant of them all—the Sacro Monte of excuse must be, that I found it impossibleto deal with Varallo without making my booktoo long. Varallo requires a work to itself; Imust, therefore, hope to return to it on anotheroccasion. For the convenience of avoiding explanations, Ihave treated the events of several sum


. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . LONDONDAVID BOGUE, 3 ST. MARTINS PLACE, 1882 UPft PREFACE. I should perhaps apologise for publishing a workwhich professes to deal with the sanctuaries ofPiedmont, and saying so little about the most im-portant of them all—the Sacro Monte of excuse must be, that I found it impossibleto deal with Varallo without making my booktoo long. Varallo requires a work to itself; Imust, therefore, hope to return to it on anotheroccasion. For the convenience of avoiding explanations, Ihave treated the events of several summers asthough they belonged to only one. This can beof no importance to the reader, but as the work ischronologically inexact, I had better perhaps say so. The illustrations by Mr. H. F. Jones are on pages102, 274, 292, 309, 330, 337. The frontispiece andillustration on the title-page, and on pages 338 and339, are by Mr. Charles Gogin. There are two draw-ings on pages T74, 175, by an Italian gentleman whose vi PREFACE. name I have unfortunately lost, and whose


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