Tyrol and Its People

xiii, 336 pp. Gilt title on front board, top page ridge gilt. With sixteen illustrations in colour by Adrian Stokes, thirty-one other illustrations and a map. Color frontispiece, color and monotone plates, many from photographs. CONTENTS: The Romance and History of Tyrol from the Earliest Times Down to the Seventeenth Century; Tyrol from its Incorporation by Austria as a Part of the Empire to the Present Time; Some Characteristic Legends, Customs, and Sports; Innsbruck, its History, People and Treasures; The Environs of Innsbruck--Castle Ambras and its Treasures--Igls: A Quaint Legend Concerning its Church--The Stubai Valley, and Some Villages--Hall and its Salt Mines--Speckbacher's Old Home--St. Michael; Salzburg, its History and Romance; The Environs of Salzburg--Hellbrunn, its Unique Fountains and Gardens--The Castle of Anif--The Gaisberg--The Kapuzingerberg--The Mozart-Hauschen--The Monchsberg--Salzburg Churches; Some Towns and Villages of South Tyrol--Meran, Bozen, Klausen, Brixen, Spinges, Sterzing, Matrei; Some Towns and Villages of Walsch-Tyrol: Trent, its History, Council and Buildings--Roveredo and Dante--Acro--Riva; Among the Dolomites, with Notes Upon Some Tours and Ascents; Through the Unter-Innthal: Kufstein--Kundl--Rattenberg, and the Story of Wilhelm Biener--Brixlegg, and its Peasant Dramas--The Famous Castle of Matzen--St. Georgenberg, and its Pilgrimage Church--Castle Tratzberg--Schwaz; Through the Ober-Innthal: Zirl, its Church, Legends, and Painted Houses--the Martinswand and Maximilian--Scharnitz--Landeck--Bludenz--Bregenz and its Legend of the Maid; Index.