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I. | London to Denmark Across the North Sea | 1 |
II. | Esbjerg—Across Jutland, Funen and Zealand, the Little Belt and Big Belt to Copenhagen, and Friends Met Along the Way | 7 |
III. | Copenhagen, a Quaint and Ancient City | 15 |
IV. | Elsinore and Kronborg—An Evening Dinner Party | 31 |
V. | Across the Sund to Sweden and Incidents of Travel to Kristiania | 40 |
VI. | A Day Upon the Rand Fjord—Along the Etna Elv To Frydenlund—Ole Mon Our Driver | 51 |
VII. | A Drive Along the Baegna Elv—the Aurdals Vand and Many More to Skogstad | 60 |
VIII. | Over the Height of Land—A Wonderful Ride Down the Laera Dal to the Sogne Fjord | 68 |
IX. | A Day Upon the Sogne Fjord | 75 |
X. | From Stalheim to Eida—The Waterfall of Skjerve Fos—The Mighty Hardanger Fjord | 80 |
XI. | The Buarbrae and Folgefonden Glaciers—Cataracts and Mountain Tarns—Odda to Horre | 89 |
XII. | Over the Lonely Haukeli Fjeld—Witches and Pixies, and Maidens Milking Goats | 96 |
XIII. | Descending from the Fjelde—The Telemarken Fjords—The Arctic Twilight | 106 |
XIV. | Kristiania to Stockholm—A Wedding Party—Differing Norsk and Swede | 118 |
XV. | Stockholm the Venice of the North—Life and Color of the Swedish Capital—Manners of the People and their King | 128 |
XVI. | How We Entered Russia—The Passport System—Difficult to Get Into Russia and More Difficult to Get Out | 136 |
XVII. | St. Petersburg—The Great Wealth of the Few—The Bitter Poverty of the Many—Conditions Similar to Those Preceding the French Revolution | 148 |
XVIII. | En Route to Moscow—Under Military Guard—Suspected of Designs on Life of the Czar | 158 |
XIX. | Our Arrival at Moscow—Splendor and Squalor—Enlightenment and Superstition—Russia Asiatic Rather Than European | 167 |
XX. | The Splendid Pageant of the Russian Mass—The Separateness of Russian Religious Feeling From Modern Thought—Russia Mediaeval and Pagan | 180 |
XXI. | The First Snows—Moscow to Warsaw—Fat Farm Lands and Frightful Poverty of the Mujiks Who Own them and Till them—I Recover My Passport | 189 |
XXII. | The Slav and the Jew—The Slav’s Envy and Jealousy of the Jew | 201 |
XXIII. | Across Germany and Holland to England—A Hamburg Wein Stube—The “Simple Fisher-Folk” of Maarken—Two Gulden at Den Haag | 214 |
XXIV. | Map of North Europe. |
| Map of Scandinavia and Baltic Russia, in profile. |