The Queen of Sheba, and My Cousin the Colonel

A collection of short fiction and travel sketches that alternates comic and sentimental domestic episodes with brisk adventures and evocative travel writing. The narratives present village life, family jars, romantic yearnings, and eccentric incidents—sometimes involving mistaken identity and confinement—rendered with ironic observation and delicate descriptive detail. Later pieces shift to mountain travel, tracing routes through Geneva, Chamouni, and approaches to Mont Blanc, blending vivid alpine description, anecdote, and reflective commentary on landscape and human temperament.