ART IN THE VALLEY OF SAAS 1 



HAVING been told by Mr. Fortescue, of the 

 British Museum, that there were some chapels 

 at Saas-Fee which bore analogy to those at 

 Varallo, described in my book " Ex Voto, " 2 1 

 went to Saas during this last summer, and 

 venture now to lay my conclusions before the 

 reader. 



The chapels are fifteen in number, and lead 

 up to a larger and singularly graceful one, 

 rather more than half-way between Saas and 

 Saas-Fee. This is commonly but wrongly 

 called the chapel of St. Joseph, for it is 

 dedicated to the Virgin, and its situation is 

 of such extreme beauty the great Fee 

 glaciers showing through the open portico 

 that it is in itself worth a pilgrimage. It is 

 surrounded by noble larches and overhung by 

 rock ; in front of the portico there is a small 

 open space covered with grass, and a huge 



1 Published in the Universal Review, November 1890. 

 2 Longmans & Co., 1890. 



