Father Rhine....................................................003 The impassive historian ........................................004 Vast forests as old as the world ...............................005 The first pioneers..............................................007 The Celts were a people from India..............................009 What happy people scholars are..................................010 A horrible custom...............................................019 Dead man’s trees................................................022 The Druids now appear for the first time in Germany.............023 The other chieftains were generally polygamists.................031 Courts of justice were always held under an elm tree............032 Attempt to murder the mayor ....................................033 Mistletoe an officinal and sacred plant.........................035 Gauls...........................................................037 Serpents’ knots.................................................038 Prophetic trembling and neighing................................041 A Druid teacher ................................................044 The Germans were in full flight ................................046 The bloody knife of the Druids .................................052 I turn my steps from the sacred precincts.......................055 Who are these other soldiers?...................................057 These laborers seem to suffer from some restraint...............058 I look around for a resting-place ..............................059 A shepherd......................................................060 The guard of a sword, which had been driven into the ground.....061 The shepherd,—as mournful as ever...............................063 Herds of swine are wallowing ...................................066 A young wife bearing the burden of united household.............067 Happiness consists in the fulfillment of duty ..................068 Such were the ways of our fathers: rejoice in facing death......069 The Druidical altars............................................070 As there is no window I peep through the trap-door..............072 One of the chief men of the country ............................075 She was a young Ionian girl, a country-woman of Aspasia.........080 The boudoir of a Celtic lady....................................082 The Druid-bard..................................................085 Death of Druids.................................................091 A Druidess endowed with the gift of prophecy ...................093 The victorious march of the Romans .............................094 Her deities personified nothing but vices ......................096 The Hercules—so called..........................................098 Mercury, the son of Jupiter ....................................099 “O Varus, Varus, bring me back my legions!”.....................103 Perhaps the old river remembered his grievances.................105 They made him a king, the King of German rivers.................106 He had already allowed Jupiter to cross.........................107 The vines began to adorn the banks of the river.................108 Once more caresses had their hoped-for effect...................109 He did his best to help everybody across..................... 023s |