Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books 1. Page scan source: http://books.google.com/books?id=VsALAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP5&dq=Collection+of+G erman+Authors.+Vol.+27. 2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. COLLECTION OF GERMAN AUTHORS. VOL. 27. * * * * * BARBAROSSA AND OTHER TALES BY P. HEYSE. IN ONE VOLUME. BARBAROSSA AND OTHER TALES BY PAUL HEYSE. FROM THE GERMAN BY L. C. S. _Authorized Edition._ LEIPZIG 1874 BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW & SEARLE. CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET. PARIS: C. REINWALD & Cie, 15, RUE DES SAINTS PERES. CONTENTS. BARBAROSSA THE EMBROIDERESS OF TREVISO LOTTKA THE LOST SON THE FAIR KATE GEOFFROY AND GARCINDE BARBAROSSA. BARBAROSSA. I had only intended to spend one day up in the mountains, and this one day grew into two weeks, which I found pass more rapidly in that high-perched ruinous nest on the confines of the Albano and Sabine range--the name I will not give--than was often the case in the whirl of great cities. What I actually did with myself during the sweet long days I hardly know how to tell. But in Rome a mighty hunger after solitude had fallen on me. I could satisfy it here to the full. It was early spring-time, the leaves of the chestnut trees shone in luxuriant freshness; the ravines were filled by the song of birds, and the murmur of brooks; and as of late a large body of banditti who had rendered this wild district insecure, had been in part captured, and in part driven into the Abruzzi, it ensued that a lonely wanderer might without any apprehension climb the remotest crags, and there give himself up undisturbed to profoundest meditations.