H. B.


CONTENTS.

ChapterPage
I.The River of Story and Song[15]
II.Ghost Stories[21]
III.A Story-telling Journey[40]
IV.German Stories[60]
V.The Second Meeting of the Club[76]
VI.Night Second[92]
VII.Evening the Third[104]
VIII.Evening the Fourth[122]
IX.Fifth Meeting for Rhine Stories[145]
X.Night the Sixth[165]
XI.Cologne[184]
XII.Hamburg[206]
XIII.The Bells of the Rhine[221]
XIV.The Songs of the Rhine[253]
XV.Copenhagen[277]
XVI.Norway[288]
XVII.The Greater Rhine[309]

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Carrying Siegfried’s Body[Frontispiece.]
Introducing Christianity into the North[16]
Castle in Rhine Land[17]
Tower of Rüdesheim on the Rhine[19]
Mountain Scenery in Southern Germany[23]
“I’ve seen de Debble”[26]
Cat and Rat[27]
Grandmother Golden[29]
The Frightened Irishman[30]
Duncan Asleep[34]
Witches[35]
The Grand-Ducal Castle, Schwerin[41]
Ancient German Houses[43]
Ancient Religious Rites of the Peasants[45]
Old Fortress on the Rhine[50]
St. Dunstan and the Devil[53]
The Murder of Edward[58]
The Emperor William and Napoleon III[63]
William before his Father[64]
King William’s Helmet[65]
Jamie at the Strange-looking House[67]
Mountain Scene in Germany[69]
Jamie rushing towards his Mother[71]
The Dwarf and the Goose[72]
Eberhard[74]
Bridge in the Via Mala[77]
John Huss[79]
Bismarck[81]
Peter in the Forest[86]
Peter and the Manikin[88]
Peter surpassed the King of Dancers[89]
Peter and the Giant[90]
A Village in the Black Forest[93]
Peasant’s House in the Black Forest[95]
Von Moltke[97]
Fountain at Schaffhausen[99]
The Old Woman’s Directions[101]
The Hen and the Trench[102]
Strasburg Cathedral[103]
Platform of Strasburg Cathedral[107]
Thus didst thou to the Vase of Soissons[109]
Street in Strasburg[111]
Clovis[113]
Monsieur Lacombe and the Organ[115]
“Here is an Odd Treasure”[120]
Palace at Heidelberg[123]
German Student[126]
Castle at Heidelberg[127]
German Students[131]
Entrance to Heidelberg Castle[135]
Little Mook[137]
Amputation[139]
The Queer Old Lady who went to College[140]
“And it told to her the Truth”[141]
“Not very, very plain”[141]
“They you straightway in invite”[141]
“He of the Philosophie”[143]
A Battle between Franks and Saxons[146]
Luther’s House[147]
A tribe of Germans on an Expedition[149]
The Murder of Siegfried[151]
Mayence[153]
Bishop Hatto and the Rats[155]
View on the Rhine[158]
The Lorelei[159]
Herman’s Eyes were fixed on the Rock[163]
Ehrenbreitstein[166]
Goethe’s Promenade[167]
Faust Signing[171]
Faust and Mephistopheles[172]
A Cleft in the Mountains[175]
Voltaire[179]
The Unnerved Hussar[182]
Cathedral of Cologne[185]
The Mysterious Architect[189]
St. Martin’s Church, Cologne[193]
Charlemagne in the School of the Palace[197]
Charlemagne inflicting Baptism upon the Saxons[201]
The Germans on an Expedition[203]
Canal in Hamburg[207]
The Palace in Berlin[209]
Grotto[211]
Sans-Souci[213]
Peter the Wild Boy[217]
The Silent Castles[223]
Hotel de Ville, Ghent[225]
Bell-Tower, Ghent[228]
Bell Tower of Heidelberg[229]
Breslau[233]
Finishing the Bell[236]
At the Inn[237]
The Day of Execution[238]
Above the Town[241]
Old Peasant Costume[244]
The Old City[245]
Old Peasant Costume[247]
Old Peasant Costumes[248]
City Gate[249]
The Neckar[250]
An Old German Town[255]
The Rhinefels[257]
Mayence in the Olden Time[262]
Beethoven’s Home at Bonn[268]
A City of the Rhine[271]
The River of Song[274]
The Palace of Rosenborg[278]
View of Copenhagen[279]
Palace of Fredericksborg[283]
The King in the Bag[286]
Gustavus Adolphus[289]
Death of Gustavus and his Page[293]
Cascade in Norway[297]
Lazaretto[299]
The Naero Fiord[300]
Lake in Norway[303]
The Coast[307]
Niagara Falls[311]
A New England in the West[315]
Near Quebec[317]