YS IN THE ORIENT" to
explain the Eastern Question, and of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE OCCIDENT"
to explain Homesteading in the West.

The purpose of this volume is the same as in "EUROPE" and "CLASSIC
LANDS." A light narrative of travel takes the reader to the places
most conspicuously associated with German history, tradition,
literature, and art, and in a disconnected way gives a view of the
most interesting events of those Northern countries that once
constituted a great part of the empire of Charlemagne.

It is the aim of these books to stimulate a love of history, and to
_suggest_ the best historical reading. To this end popular stories and
pictures are freely used to adapt useful information to the tastes of
the young. But in every page, story, and picture, right education and
right influence are kept in view.

In this volume many German legends and fairy stories have been used,
but they are so introduced and guarded as not to leave a wrong
impression upon the minds of the young and immature.

H. B.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

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

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Carrying Siegfried's Body _Frontispiece._

Introducing Christianity into the North 16

Cast