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  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.--Their Resemblance to the Germans.--A Dispute between Vane and Trevylyan, after the manner of the ancient Novelists, as to which is preferable, the Life of Action, or the Life of Repose.--Trevylyan's Contrast between Literary Ambition and the Ambition of Public Life

  CHAPTER VI. Gorcum.--The Tour of the Virtues: a Philosopher's Tale

  CHAPTER VII. Cologne.--The Traces of the Roman Yoke.--The Church of St. Maria.--Trevylyan's Reflections on the Monastic Life.--The Tomb of the Three Kings.--An Evening Excursion on the Rhine

  CHAPTER VIII. The Soul in Purgatory; or, Love Stronger than Death

  CHAPTER IX. The Scenery of the Rhine analogous to the German Literary Genius.--The Drachenfels

  CHAPTER X. The Legend of Roland.--The Adventures of Nymphalin on the Island of Nonnewerth.--Her Song.--The Decay of the Fairy-Faith in England

  CHAPTER XI. Wherein the Reader is made Spectator with the English Fairies of the Scenes and Beings that are beneath the Earth

  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.--An Incident that suffices in this Tale for an Epoch

  CHAPTER XVI. Gertrude.--The Excursion to Hammerstein.--Thoughts

  CHAPTER XVII. Letter from Trevylyan to -----

  CHAPTER XVIII. Coblentz.--Excursion to the Mountains of Taunus; Roman Tower in the Valley of Ehrenbreitstein.--Travel, its Pleasures estimated differently by the Young and the Old.--The Student of Heidelberg: his Criticisms on German Literature

  CHAPTER XIX. The Fallen Star; or, the History of a False Religion

  CHAPTER XX. Glenhausen.--The Power of Love in Sanctified Places.--A Portrait of Frederick Barbarossa.--The Ambition of Men finds no adequate Sympathy in Women

  CHAPTER XXI. View of Ehrenbreitstein.--A New Alarm in Gertrude's Health.--Trarbach

  CHAPTER XXII. The Double Life.--Trevylyan's Fate.--Sorrow the Parent of Fame.--Niederlahnstein.--Dreams

  CHAPTER XXIII. The Life of Dreams

  CHAPTER XXIV. The Brothers

  CHAPTER XXV. The Immortality of the Soul.--A Common Incident not before Described. --Trevylyan and Gertrude

  CHAPTER XXVI. In which the Reader will learn how the Fairies were received by the Sovereigns of the Mines.--The Complaint of the Last of the Fauns.--The Red Huntsman.--The Storm.--Death

  CHAPTER XXVII. Thurmberg.--A Storm upon the Rhine.--The Ruins of Rheinfels.--Peril Unfelt by Love.--The Echo of the Lurlei-berg.--St. Goar.--Kaub, Gutenfels, and Pfalzgrafenstein.--A certain Vastness of Mind in the First Hermits.--The Scenery of the Rhine to Bacharach

  CHAPTER XXVIII. The Voyage to Bingen.--The Simple Incidents in this Tale Excused.--The Situation and Character of Gertrude.--The Conversation of the Lovers in the Tempest.--A Fact Contradicted.--Thoughts occasioned by a Madhouse amongst the most Beautiful Landscapes of the Rhine

  CHAPTER XXIX. Ellfeld.--Mayence.--Heidelberg.--A Conversation between Vane and the German Student.--The Ruins of the Castle of Heidelberg and its Solitary Habitant

  CHAPTER XXX. No Part of the Earth really Solitary.--The Song of the Fairies.--The Sacred Spot.--The Witch of the Evil Winds.--The Spell and the Duty of the Fairies

  CHAPTER XXXI. Gertrude and Trevylyan, when the former is awakened to the Approach of Death

  CHAPTER XXXII. A Spot to be Buried in

  CHAPTER THE LAST The Conclusion of this Tale