rough a gloomy mountain glen, smiling at Death,
who holds up an hourglass before him, and taking no notice at all of
the droll Devil, who tries to grasp him from behind. The knight is
evidently an embodiment of the freer spirit which began to reign then
in Germany. The engraving is of the year 1513.

_Page_ 26.--"Far off on the island glisten." The town of Saekkingen with
its minster.

_Page_ 30.--Rheinfeld, or rather Rheinfelden, a town on the left bank
of the Rhine, about halfway between Saekkingen and Basel, where, during
the Thirty Years' War, in the year 1638 several actions took place.

_Page_ 32.--Wehr, a village about six miles from Saekkingen, on the road
to Schopfheim, in the neighbourhood of a stalactite cave (Hasler
Hoehle) mentioned in the Tenth Part.

_Page_ 38.--Cujacius (Jacques de Cujas), a very distinguished jurist
and professor of law in the university of Bourges (d. 1590). His only
daughter, Susanna, became known by her profligate life. But the stories
told of her by Catherinot cannot have happened during her father's
lifetime, as he died when she was only three years old.

_Page_ 43--Palsgrave Frederic married the Princess Elizabeth, daughter
of James the First of England, in 1613. He was afterwards made king of
Bohemia by the Protestant princes of Germany, and moved to Prague in
1619. In the year following his army was routed near Prague by the
forces of the Catholic League, and he had to fly with his family.

_Page_ 46.--"Of a young and handsome carpenter." The pastor refers here
to a popular German song, still often sung by students:

War einst ein jung, jung Zimmergesell,
Der hatte zu bauen ein Schloss, etc.

It is the story of a young carpenter who built a castle for a Margrave.
During the absence of the latter the Margravine falls in love with the
carpenter. The lovers are afterwards surprised by the Margrave, who has
a gallows built on which the carpenter is hung.

_Page_ 49.--Clovis (465-511), king of the Franks, was married, while he
was still a heathen, to Clotilde, a Christian princess of Burgundy.
During the battle at Tolbiac (Zuelpich), near Cologne, when sorely
pressed by the enemy, the Allemanni, he vowed to become a Christian, if
he should gain the victory. After routing and subjugating the
Allemanni, the king and many thousands of his people were baptised by
the Bishop of Rheims, on the 23rd of December of the same year (496).

_Page_ 50.--"Augusta Rauracorum,