LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
NOVEMBER, 1873.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by J. B. Lippincott, & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, atWashington.
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CONTENTS
THE NEW HYPERION.
AUTUMN VOICES.
SKETCHES OF EASTERN TRAVEL.
LONDON BALLS
THE LIVELIES.
A STRAYED SINGER.
HARVEST.
ORCO.
IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
SOLACE.
A PRINCESS OF THULE.
LAKESHORE RELICS.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY
Books Received.
THE NEW HYPERION.
FROM PARIS TO MARLY BY WAY OF THE RHINE.
V.—IN PURSUIT OF A PASSPORT.
THE SIGN OF THE "STORK"."The Strasburgers have a legend—"
We were rolling along very comfortably in the engineer's coach. Frompavement to bridge, and from bridge to pavement, we effected the longstep which bestrides the Rhine.
"I knew you would prick your ears up at the word. Well, I have found alegend among the people here about the original acquisition of Strasburgby the French. You know Louis XIV. bagged the city quite unwarrantablyin 1681, in a time of peace."
I was much delighted with this beginning, and told my friend that tocross the storied Rhine and simultaneously listen to a legend made mefeel as if I were Frithiof the Viking entertained on his voyage by aSkald.
"The Alsatians will have it," said my[Pg 498] canal-digger, "that the GrandMonarch was a bit of a magician. The depth of what I may call hisHigh-Church sentiment, which at last proved so edifying to theMaintenon, has never convinced them that he wasn't a trifle in leaguewith the devil. At the foot of his praying-chair was always chained alittle casket of ebony, bound with iron. In this he imprisoned a littleyellow man, a demon of the most concentrated structure, hardly a footlong. This goblin ran through the air, on an errand or with a letter,about as fast as a stroke of lightning, and admirably filled the placeof the modern telegraph. For each meal he took three seeds of hemp,which he loved to receive from the king's hand. By and by the littleyellow man became more of a gourmand. He demanded seed-pearls, and theking was obliged to rob the queen's jewel-boxes. Then the yellow dwarf'sappe