THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
THE IDEAL WORLD
By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton)
CONTENTS
[ ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. ]
[ PREFACE. ]
[ THE IDEAL WORLD ]
[ THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE ]
[ CHAPTER I. ] IN WHICH THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO QUEEN NYMPHALIN
[ CHAPTER II. ] THE LOVERS
[ CHAPTER III. ] FEELINGS
[ CHAPTER IV. ] THE MAID OF MALINES
[ CHAPTER V. ] ROTTERDAM.—THE CHARACTER OF THE DUTCH
[ CHAPTER VI. ] GORCUM.—THE TOUR OF THE VIRTUES: A PHILOSOPHER’S TALE
[ CHAPTER VII. ] COLOGNE.—THE TRACES OF THE ROMAN YOKE
[ CHAPTER VIII. ] THE SOUL IN PURGATORY; OR LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH
[ CHAPTER IX. ] THE SCENERY OF THE RHINE ANALOGOUS TO THE GERMAN LITERARY
[ CHAPTER X. ] THE LEGEND OF ROLAND.—THE ADVENTURES OF NYMPHALIN
[ CHAPTER XI. ] WHEREIN THE READER IS MADE SPECTATOR WITH THE ENGLISH
[ CHAPTER XII. ] THE WOOING OF MASTER FOX
[ CHAPTER XIII. ] THE TOMB OF A FATHER OF MANY CHILDREN
[ CHAPTER XIV. ] THE FAIRY’S CAVE, AND THE FAIRY’S WISH
[ CHAPTER XV. ] THE BANKS OF THE RHINE.—FROM THE DRACHENFELS TO BROHL
[ CHAPTER XVI. ] GERTRUDE.—THE EXCURSION TO HAMMERSTEIN
[ CHAPTER XVII. ] LETTER FROM TREVYLYAN
[ CHAPTER XVIII. ] COBLENTZ.—EXCURSION TO THE MOUNTAINS OF TAUNUS
[ CHAPTER XIX. ] THE FALLEN STAR; OR THE HISTORY OF A FALSE RELIGION
[ CHAPTER XX. ] GLENHAUSEN.—THE POWER OF LOVE IN SANCTIFIED PLACES
[ CHAPTER XXI. ] VIEW OF EHRENBREITSTEIN.—A NEW ALARM
[ CHAPTER XXII. ] THE DOUBLE LIFE.—TREVYLYAN’S FATE
[ CHAPTER XXIII. ] THE LIFE OF DREAMS
[ CHAPTER XXIV. ] THE BROTHERS
[ CHAPTER XXV. ] THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.—A COMMON INCIDENT
[ CHAPTER XXVI. ] IN WHICH THE READER WILL LEARN HOW THE FAIRIES
[ CHAPTER XXVII. ] THURMBERG.—A STORM UPON THE RHINE
[ CHAPTER XXVIII. ] THE VOYAGE TO BINGEN.—THE SIMPLE INCIDENTS
[ CHAPTER XXIX. ] ELLFELD.—MAYENCE.—HEIDELBERG.—A CONVERSATION BETWEEN
[ CHAPTER XXX. ] NO PART OF THE EARTH REALLY SOLITARY.—THE SONG
[ CHAPTER XXXI. ] GERTRUDE AND TREVYLYAN, WHEN THE FORMER IS AWAKENED
[ CHAPTER XXXII. ] A SPOT TO BE BURIED IN
[ CHAPTER THE LAST. ] THE CONCLUSION OF THIS TALE
TO HENRY LYTTON BULWER.
ALLOW me, my dear Brother, to dedicate this Work to you. The greater part of it (namely, the tales which vary and relieve the voyages of Gertrude and Trevylyan) was written in the pleasant excursion we made together some years ago. Among the associations—some sad and some pleasing—connected with the general design, none are so agreeable to me as those that remind me of the friendship subsisting between us, and which, unlike that of near relations in general, has grown stronger and more intimate as our footsteps have receded farther from the fields where we played together in our childhood. I dedicate this Work to you with the more pleasure, not only when I remember that it has always been a favourite with yourself, but when I think that it is one of my writings most liked in foreign countries; and I may possibly, therefore, have found a record destined to endure the affectionate esteem which this Dedication is intended to convey.
Yours, etc.
E. L. B. LONDON, April 23, 1840.