THE LAND OF EVANGELINE

By John F. Herbin

Evangeline’s Well	Frontispiece
Map of The Evangeline Country	viii
	Facing Page
At Annapolis Royal (Old Port Royal)	8
Bear River	16
The Blue Boat	24
Blomidon, Low Tide	40
Gaspereau River and Blomidon (Scene of the Deportation)	40
The Stone Cross (Acadian Burying Ground)	41
Evangeline (From the Painting)	56
Scotch Covenanter Church (Grand-Pré)	57
Village Smithy (Grand-Pré)	57
The Evangeline Statue	72
Original Acadian Willow-Trees	72

	BOOK I.
	Epigraph
CHAPTER I	THE HERO.
CHAPTER II	THE CHRIST OF ANDERNACH.
CHAPTER III	HOMUNCULUS.
CHAPTER IV	THE LANDLADY'S DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER V	JEAN PAUL, THE ONLY-ONE.
CHAPTER VI	HEIDELBERG AND THE BARON.
CHAPTER VII	LIVES OF SCHOLARS.
CHAPTER VIII	LITERARY FAME.
	BOOK II.
	Epigraph
CHAPTER I	SPRING.
CHAPTER II	A COLLOQUY.
CHAPTER III	OWL-TOWERS.
CHAPTER IV	A BEER-SCANDAL.
CHAPTER V	THE WHITE LADY'S SLIPPER AND THE PASSION-FLOWER.
CHAPTER VI	GLIMPSES INTO CLOUD-LAND.
CHAPTER VII	MILL-WHEELS AND OTHER WHEELS.
CHAPTER VIII	OLD HUMBUG.
CHAPTER IX	THE DAYLIGHT OF THE DWARFS, AND THE FALLING STAR.
CHAPTER X	THE PARTING.
	BOOK III.
	Epigraph
CHAPTER I	SUMMER-TIME.
CHAPTER II	FOOT-TRAVELLING.
CHAPTER III	INTERLACHEN.
CHAPTER IV	THE EVENING AND THE MORNING STAR.
CHAPTER V	A RAINY DAY.
CHAPTER VI	AFTER DINNER, AND AFTER THE MANNER OF THE BEST CRITICS.
CHAPTER VII	TAKE CARE!
CHAPTER VIII	THE FOUNTAIN OF OBLIVION.
CHAPTER IX	A TALK ON THE STAIRS.
	BOOK IV.
	Epigraph
CHAPTER I	A MISERERE.
CHAPTER II	CURFEW BELLS.
CHAPTER III	SHADOWS ON THE WALL.
CHAPTER IV	MUSICAL SUFFERINGS OF JOHN KREISLER.
CHAPTER V	SAINT GILGEN.
CHAPTER VI	SAINT WOLFGANG.
CHAPTER VII	THE STORY OF BROTHER BERNARDUS.
CHAPTER VIII	FOOT-PRINTS OF ANGELS.
CHAPTER IX	THE LAST PANG.

	PAGE
Introduction	1
The Building of the Ship	3
Hiawatha	12
King Robert of Sicily	26
The Village Blacksmith	37
The Golden Legend	42
The Courtship of Miles Standish	56
Lady Wentworth	67
Elizabeth	73
The Monk and the Ass	82
Evangeline	93
The Falcon of Ser Federigo	111

TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN.
PAGE
Prelude.
The Wayside Inn		1
The Landlord's Tale.
Paul Revere's Ride		18
Interlude		26
The Student's Tale.
The Falcon of Ser Federigo		30
Interlude		46
The Spanish Jew's Tale.
The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi		49
Interlude		53
The Sicilian's Tale.
King Robert of Sicily		55
Interlude		69
The Musician's Tale.
The Saga of King Olaf		71
i.	The Challenge of Thor	71
ii.	King Olaf's Return	74
iii.	Thora of Rimol	79
iv.	Queen Sigrid the Haughty	83
v.	The Skerry of Shrieks	88
vi.	The Wraith of Odin	94
vii.	Iron-Beard	98
viii.	Gudrun	103
ix.	Thangbrand the Priest	106
x.	Raud the Strong	111
xi.	Bishop Sigurd at Salten Fiord	114
xii.	King Olaf's Christmas	120
xiii.	The Building of the Long Serpent	125
xiv.	The Crew of the Long Serpent	130
xv.	A Little Bird in the Air	134
xvi.	Queen Thyri and the Angelica Stalks	137
xvii.	King Svend of the Forked Beard	144
xviii.	King Olaf and Earl Sigvald	149
xix.	King Olaf's War-Horns	152
xx.	Einar Tamberskelver	156
xxi.	King Olaf's Death-drink	160
xxii.	The Nun of Nidaros	165
Interlude		169
The Theologian's Tale.
Torquemada		173
Interlude		187
The Poet's Tale.
The Birds or Killingworth		189
Finale		205

BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
FLIGHT THE SECOND.

The Children's Hour		209
Enceladus		212
The Cumberland		215
Snow-flakes		218
A Day of Sunshine		220
Something left Undone		222
Weariness		224

	page
To William E. Channing	9
The Slave's Dream	11
The Good Part	15
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp	18
The Slave singing at Midnight	21
The Witnesses	23
The Quadroon Girl	26
The Warning	30