By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton)
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.