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  • H E WALKS UP TO GREET YOU WHEN YOU NEED HIM MOST A pass-book to travel service in foreign lands ... an insured currency, speaking the language of stores, hotels, and restaurants authoritatively . .. the Blue Travelers Cheques of the American Express Company. These Blue Express Cheques provide more than protection for your money. They deliver to your command all the vast machinery of the American Express Service: AT HOME . . . the travel man who helps you plan your tour, buys your steamer and railway tickets, reserves your hotel rooms, advises you what to see, and meanwhile leaves you free to do what you wish. ABROAD ... the interpreter who meets you at the dock threads the mazes of railways and customs, and walks up and greets you in English when you need him most. What American traveler will ever forget the American Express, 11 Rue Scribe, Paris? The best known address in the travel world. And the American Express Service keeps ready for you travel havens in 25 foreign countries on 5 continents ... to smooth the way for you as a holder of Blue Express Travelers Cheques. When travel calls, draw upon the friendly counsel of the travel men in the American Express office nearest to you. It will mean that ... in every American Express office along your travel pathway you will find ... a helpful friend and counselor. •» sssssras T1AVEJJPIS CHEQUES, TMAVIi KKVIU HEM AND EVnYWHOtt American Express Company WORLD SERVICE FOR TRAVELERS American Express Company 62 65 Broadway, New York 599 Market St. at Second, San Francisco 70 E. Randolph St., Chicago 603-608 Standard DIdg., Atlanta, Ga. Please send me information on a trip to leaving about lasting weeks. Name Address treux to Chateau d'Oex during May and June. The festival of the narcissi in Mon- treux in June is one of the country's famous flower fetes. The charming thing about summering in Switzerland is the versatility of things to do. There are few places in the world so wonderful for people who like to walk. The beauty of the mountains, the surprises of the winding roads, reward the pedestrian's slow pace. In three weeks you can walk from one end to the other of the whole country. And you may participate in many snow walks through wonderful ice scenery without ever doing any real mountain climbing. If, however, you are ambitious to become a mountain climber, the country offers you easy rock peaks on which to practice until you gain the skill and strength to tackle the Matterhorn. For the angler, Switzerland is a paradise. For those who need competitive sports there are golf, tennis and in certain sections of the mountains "winter sports" that many enjoy in July. If you wish to come back from your vacation with a sound body and a wholesome spirit, choose Switzerland. Dwellers of the Silences Rarely is there issued such a vivid, dramatic and accurate set of Nature stories as is included in Dwellers of the Silences, by Alexander Sprunt, Jr. Rarely, too, has the reading public been offered such a clear, sharp-etched picture of the real out-of- doors, where death is the penalty of carelessness and the prospect of serving as a meal the most likely one offered to the individual animal or bird by a stern Nature. Mr. Sprunt, curator of ornithology at the Charleston, S. C, Museum, does not make the mistake of so many Nature writers, and give his characters—Cygnus the Swan, Ursus the Bear, Wide-Wing the Eagle— human attributes; but he has so carefully studied them that he is able to create real personalities, whose joys, tragedies, triumphs and failures demand response from the reader. It is as if Mr. Sprunt had travelled from the land of blizzards to the tropics with his creatures, had seen them in every turn of their lives, and had reported their experiences with objectivity and lack of sentimentality. There is little plot in the stories, but much of action. There is little attempt at fine writing, but actually a fine, limpid, colorful style is achieved. Mr. Sprunt, we hope, will be sufficiently encouraged by the results of this, his first book, to prepare another in the near future. The illustrations of this remarkable volume are by Charles Livingston Bull, concerning which nothing further need be said. They are fit complements to the excellent stories. Dwellers of the Silences is published by Dodd, Mead and Company at $2.50. Florida Garden Exhibit The wide-awake Garden Club of St. Petersburg, Florida, held its annual Garden Exhibit during February before large crowds, in which were numbers of tourists who took back home with them an idea of the progressive activities of this organization. The aim of the group is home and city beautification, and the program of the exhibit tended to illustrate the effective use which could be made of native plants. 284 Mention Nature Magazine when answering advertisements
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