When suffering rent my weary heart,

Thy breath of fragrant woodland flowers

Did life renew, fresh strength impart.

Oh Scheffel! may thy years be long!

And may'st thou live to see the time,

When this thy genial Schwarzwald song

Will find a home in every clime.

Basel, June, 1877.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
[DEDICATION]1
[PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION]7
[PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION]11
[PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION]13
[PREFACE TO THE FIFTIETHEDITION]16

[FIRST PART.]

HOW YOUNG WERNER RODE INTO THE SCHWARZWALD19

[SECOND PART.]

YOUNG WERNER WITH THE SCHWARZWALD PASTOR33

[THIRD PART.]

ST. FRIDOLIN'S DAY48

[FOURTH PART.]

YOUNG WERNER'S ADVENTURES ON THE RHINE64

[FIFTH PART.]

THE BARON AND HIS DAUGHTER78

[SIXTH PART.]

HOW YOUNG WERNER BECAME THE BARON'S TRUMPETER94

[SEVENTH PART.]

THE EXCURSION TO THE MOUNTAIN LAKE109

[EIGHTH PART.]

THE CONCERT IN THE GARDEN PAVILION128

[NINTH PART.]

TEACHING AND LEARNING142

[TENTH PART.]

YOUNG WERNER IN THE GNOME'S CAVE153

[ELEVENTH PART.]

THE HAUENSTEIN RIOT169

[TWELFTH PART.]

YOUNG WERNER AND MARGARETTA187

[THIRTEENTH PART.]

WERNER SUES FOR MARGARETTA201

[FOURTEENTH PART.]

THE BOOK OF SONGS215

[YOUNG WERNER'S SONGS]

217

[SONGS OFTHE CAT HIDDIGEIGEI]

232

[SONGS OFTHE SILENT MAN]

247

[SOME OF MARGARETTA'S SONGS]

253

[WERNER'S SONGS. FIVE YEARS LATER]

257

[FIFTEENTH PART.]

THE MEETING IN ROME273

[SIXTEENTH PART.]

SOLUTION AND END288
[NOTES.]303