Herrliche Alpentiere, by Bartholme Schocher. 4 to., 134 pages, with many illustrations from photographs by the author. Zürich: Rotapfel-Verlag, 1939.

The author is a professional photographer of Pontresina, who inherits from his father (an ardent hunter who was killed in an avalanche) a similar love of wild life, excepting only that he substitutes camera for rifle. Thus armed, neither cliff nor precipice deters him from tracking the most elusive game, and he has brought back the splendid images of his quests. No one has ever excelled his pictures of ibex, for he lives on the slopes of Piz Albriz, where the colony of the Swiss National Park has principally reestablished itself. But in addition there are many other animal portraits, of marmot, red deer, chamois and eagle, all of which are a delight to the mountain wanderer and which are here revealed in artistic and frequently spectacular grouping.