CONTENTS. BARON BRUNO AND THE STARS OR, THE UKBELIEVING PHILOSOPHER . . PAGE KSGAIR THE BRIDE OF LLYN IDWYL 49 EOTHWALD THE YOUNG SCULPTOR 91 FIDO AND FIDUNIA EUDEMON OR, THE ENCHANTER OF THE NORTH .... 199 751629 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. ESGAIR Frontispiece. VIGNETTE Tilh. PAGE THE DREAMER STARTED FROM HIS CHAIR 8 BARON BRUNO AND ALCYONE EOTHWALD AND DUVA IN THE CAVE . FIDO AND FIDUNIA 123 FIDO AND FIDUNIA . . . . , 170 199 BARON BRUNO AND THE STARS OR, BARON BRUNO AND THE STARS OR, BARON BRUNO was the Prime Minister of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Rumpel Stiltzein. Besides being Prime Minister, he was the cleverest man in the kingdom. This is saying a good deal, for were there not besides all the men of science, the physicians, the literati, and the great philosophers of the day the General-in-Chief of the Grand-Ducal army, Prince Edlerkopf the great High Almoner, Herr von Pfenig and also the accomplished Graf von Wild Kranz, the most able lawyer and the politest man about court So humble and gentle, indeed, were his manners, that strangers sometimes took it upon them- selves to dispute the opinion of their modest neighbour. -But such hardy persons seldom repeated the experiment after Wild Kranz had completely overturned their arguments in his quiet, hesitating tone, with a shrewd glance of enjoyment twinkling in his B 2 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.