Holidays in Tyrol : Klobenstein, Paneveggio and Obladis.- (Tauchnitz-Edition ; 1976)
a vista in which colour and form exert thè ir changcful charm as the light varies from hour to hour. Certain doorways, though they look private, are public thoroughfares—alleys running through to the next Street. In some you go up-stairs, cross the inner court, and descend at the farther end. There ic one through which you can see the red porphyry cliffs and rough wood beyond the Eisack. An iron piate on every house-front indicates the number and the narae of the Street. If London, and other
towns in England, would condescend to write up the names of streets here and there between the two extrernities the innovation would be in structi ve to resi- dents, and an obviation of embairassment to strangers. London is, perhaps, incorrigible, for too maiiy of its streets have as yet no name visible even at the ends. Fortiniatelv, there are a few breathing-places for tire dwellers in the narrow streets. The Johannis Platz —named after an Archduke, not after the Saint—is the most spacious and