It is the regular thing to sit out in the hotel grounds and watch them.

I wish so often you could be here to share my pleasure, for papa and mamma are afraid to sit out, and Arthur is so unpoetical! There are a great many Americans here.

The fashion of short steeves seems quite to be coming in again! I shall have to get mine altered as soon as I come home.

Some of our party went up the Rigi to-day.

The view from the top was beautiful; but the place is spoiled by the crowds of people who go up.