I would also at this place acknowledge the extreme courtesy with which every question of mine regarding Transylvania people and customs has been responded to by various kind acquaintances, and if some parts of my work do not meet with their entire approval, let them here take the assurance that my remarks were prompted by no unfriendly spirit, and that in each and every case I have endeavored to judge impartially according to my lights.

Emily de Laszowska-Gerard.

[CONTENTS.]

CHAPTERPAGE
[I.]Introductory[1]
[II.]Historical[6]
[III.]Political[11]
[IV.]Arrival in Transylvania—First Impressions[14]
[V.]Saxon Historical Feast—Legend[25]
[VI.]The Saxons: Character—Education—Religion[31]
[VII.]Saxon Villages[39]
[VIII.]Saxon Interiors—Character[50]
[IX.]Saxon Churches and Sieges[62]
[X.]The Saxon Village Pastor[71]
[XI.]The Saxon Brotherhoods—Neighborhoods and Village Hann[79]
[XII.]The Saxons: Dress—Spinning and Dancing[85]
[XIII.]The Saxons: Betrothal[94]
[XIV.]The Saxons: Marriage[101]
[XV.]The Saxons: Birth and Infancy[111]
[XVI.]The Saxons: Death and Burial[117]
[XVII.]The Roumanians: their Origin[122]
[XVIII.]The Roumanians: their Religion, Popas, and Churches[125]
[XIX.]The Roumanians: their Character[132]
[XX.]Roumanian Life[139]
[XXI.]Roumanian Marriage and Morality[146]
[XXII.]The Roumanians: Dancing, Songs, Music, Stories, and Proverbs[151]
[XXIII.]Roumanian Poetry[158]
[XXIV.]The Roumanians: Nationality and Atrocities[173]
[XXV.]The Roumanians: Death and Burial—Vampires and Were-wolves[180]
[XXVI.]Roumanian Superstition: Days and Hours[188]
[XXVII.]Roumanian Superstition—continued: Animals, Weather, Mixed Superstitions, Spirits, Shadows, etc.[196]
[XXVIII.]Saxon Superstition: Remedies, Witches, Weather-makers[207]
[XXIX.]Saxon Superstition—continued: Animals, Plants, Days[212]
[XXX.]Saxon Customs and Dramas[218]
[XXXI.]Buried Treasures[229]
[XXXII.]The Tziganes: Liszt and Lenau[236]
[XXXIII.]The Tziganes: their Life and Occupations[242]
[XXXIV.]The Tziganes: Humor, Proverbs, Religion, and Morality[253]
[XXXV.]The Gypsy Fortune-teller[260]
[XXXVI.]The Tzigane Musician[265]
[XXXVII.]Gypsy Poetry[273]
[XXXVIII.]The Szeklers and Armenians[279]
[XXXIX.]Frontier Regiments[288]
[XL.]Wolves, Bears, and Other Animals[292]
[XLI.]A Roumanian Village[299]
[XLII.]A Gypsy Camp[306]
[XLIII.]The Bruckenthals[309]
[XLIV.]Still-life at Hermanstadt—a Transylvanian Cranford[317]
[XLV.]Fire and Blood—the Hermanstadt Murder[326]
[XLVI.]The Klausenburg Carnival[331]
[XLVII.]Journey from Hermanstadt to Kronstadt[339]
[XLVIII.]Kronstadt[348]
[XLIX.]Sinaïa[357]
[L.]Up the Mountains[364]
[LI.]The Bulea See[372]
[LII.]The Wienerwald—a Digression[377]
[LIII.]A Week in the Pine Region[380]
[LIV.]La Dus and Bistra[388]
[LV.]A Night in the Stina[394]
[LVI.]Farewell to Transylvania—the Enchanted Garden[399]

[ILLUSTRATIONS.]

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Old Town Gate at Hermanstadt (Elisabeth Thor)[Frontispiece]
Saxon Burgher in Olden Times[9]
The Thorda Spalt[19]
Old Fortress-tower on the Ramparts at Hermanstadt[23]
Mounted Peasants, from the Historical Procession[28]
Saxon Peasant House[40]
Old Town Gate at Hermanstadt (on the Heltau side)[43]
Michelsberg[47]
Saxon Peasant at Home[51]
Saxon Embroidery[53]
Saxon Embroidery and Pottery[55]
Fortified Saxon Church[63]
Ruined Abbey of Kerz[70]
Saxon Pastor in Full Dress[73]
Saxon Peasant going to Work[84]
Dressing for the Dance[93]
Saxon Betrothed Couple[97]
Archbishop Schaguna[131]
Roumanian Costumes[141]
Roumanian Women[143]
Saxon Girl in Full Dress[221]
Gypsy Type[237]
A Gypsy Tinker[245]
Basket-maker[247]
Bear-driver[249]
Gypsy Girl[258]
Gypsy Mother and Child[261]
Gypsy Musicians[269]
Szekler Peasant[279]
The Rothenthurm Pass[291]
The Bruckenthal Palace[310]
Baron Samuel Bruckenthal[315]
Street at Hermanstadt[319]
Schässburg[341]
Castle of Törzburg[347]
King Matthias Corvinus[355]
Castle Pelesch at Sinaïa[359]
The Negoi[365]
The Pine Valley[381]
The Cavern Convent, Skit la Jalomitza[399]
Castle Vajda Hunyad before its restoration[401]
Map of Transylvania[At end]