Excerpt from The White Causeway HE volunteered to point out the mountains to her, and to give to every one of them its name. She said it would be so kind of him. She wanted to have every mountain in Switzerland pointed out to her and to learn its name. He looked as if he wished for no better em ployment, and he expressed himself to this effect with the air of a devout microscopist anxious to make revela tions of the infinitely small. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.