{"product_id":"2940157820039","title":"Geneva (Illustrated)","description":"Towns which expand too fast and become too prosperous tend to lose their individuality. Geneva has enjoyed that fortune, and has paid that price for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStraddling the Rhone, where it issues from the bluest lake in the world, looking out upon green meadows and wooded hills, backed by the dark ridge of the Salève, with the 'great white mountain' visible in the distance, it has the advantage of an incomparable site; and it is, from a town surveyor's point of view, well built. It has wide thoroughfares, quays, and bridges; gorgeous public monuments and well-kept public gardens; handsome theatres and museums; long rows of palatial hotels; flourishing suburbs; two railway-stations, and a casino. But all this is merely the façade--all of it quite modern; hardly any of it more than half a century old. The real historical Geneva--2the little of it that remains--is hidden away in the background, where not every tourist troubles to look for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is disappearing fast. Italian stonemasons are constantly engaged in driving lines through it. They have rebuilt, for instance, the old Corraterie, which is now the Regent Street of Geneva, famous for its confectioners' and booksellers' shops; they have destroyed, and are still destroying, other ancient slums, setting up white buildings of uniform ugliness in place of the picturesque but insanitary dwellings of the past. It is, no doubt, a very necessary reform, though one may think that it is being executed in too utilitarian a spirit. The old Geneva was malodorous, and its death-rate was high. They had more than one Great Plague there, and their Great Fires have always left some of the worst of their slums untouched. These could not be allowed to stand in an age which studies the science and practises the art of hygiene. Yet the traveller who wants to know what the old Geneva was really like must spend a morning or two rambling among them before they are pulled down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe old Geneva, like Jerusalem, was set upon a hill, and it is towards the top of the hill that the3 few buildings of historical interest are to be found. There is the cathedral--a striking object from a distance, though the interior is hideously bare. There is the Town Hall, in which, for the convenience of notables carried in litters, the upper stories were reached by an inclined plane instead of a staircase. There is Calvin's old Academy, bearing more than a slight resemblance to certain of the smaller colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. There, too, are to be seen a few mural tablets, indicating the residences of past celebrities. In such a house Rousseau was born; in such another house--or in an older house, now demolished, on the same site--Calvin died. And towards these central points the steep and narrow, mean streets--in many cases streets of stairs--converge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e   PAGE\u003cbr\u003eOld Geneva  1\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003eThe War of Independence  9\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003eThe Reformation  13\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003cbr\u003eThe Expulsion of the Nuns  17\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V\u003cbr\u003eThe Rule of Calvin  23\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI\u003cbr\u003eThe Triumph of the Theocracy  29\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII\u003cbr\u003eThe University  33\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII\u003cbr\u003eviProfessor Andrew Melvill  39\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX\u003cbr\u003eThéodore de Bèze  43\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X\u003cbr\u003eWar with Savoy  51\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI\u003cbr\u003eThe Escalade  53\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII\u003cbr\u003eAn Interval of Quiet  61\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII\u003cbr\u003eRevolutions  65\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV\u003cbr\u003eLiterature and Science  71\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV\u003cbr\u003eSaussure  77\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI\u003cbr\u003eMen of Letters  89\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII\u003cbr\u003eSongs and Squibs  93\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII\u003cbr\u003eReligious Revival  95\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX\u003cbr\u003eviiRomanticism  99\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XX\u003cbr\u003eLater Men of Letters  105\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXI\u003cbr\u003eVoltaire  107\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXII\u003cbr\u003eVoltaire and the Theatre  111\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIII\u003cbr\u003eVisitors to Ferney  119\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIV\u003cbr\u003eCoppet  123","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169687126256,"sku":"2940157820039","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157820039_p0.jpg?v=1764102494","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157820039","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}