CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: Fetter Lane New York The Macmillan Co. Bombay, Calcutta and Madras Macmillan and Co., Ltd. Toronto The Macmillan Co. of Canada, Ltd. Tokyo Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha All rights reserved HANNIBAL CROSSES THE ALPS By CECIL TORR, M.A. CAMBRIDGE : AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMXXIV PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN...

I have heard this question discussed ever since I was a child, but have never yet written anything about it except in my Small Talk at Wreyland . In the First Series, page 75, I was talking about travelling on the Continent, and I said: “Plenty of people went to Switzerland at the time when I first went—1869—far more than when my father went there thirty years before, but nothing like the crowds that go there now. They kept more to peaks and passes then; and they were always talking of Hannibal’