Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=auUBAAAAQAAJ&source 2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. OPINION OF THE SATURDAY REVIEW ON THE GERMAN EDITION OF WITHERED LEAVES. * * * * * "'Withered Leaves' is a highly effective novel, * * * * * cleverly constructed, full of varied incident, excellently written, and indicating the accomplished literary craftsman on every page." WITHERED LEAVES. A Novel, BY Rudolf von Gottschall. FROM THE GERMAN, By BERTHA NESS. Translator of Werner's "Riven Bonds" and "Sacred Vows." THREE VOLUMES. * * * * * AUTHORISED TRANSLATION. * * * * * VOL. I. * * * * * London: REMINGTON AND CO., 5, Arundel Street, Stand, W.C. * * * 1879. [_All Rights Reserved_.] CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. CHAP. I.--On the Fuchs-spitze. II.--The Blue Campanula. III.--Dual Love and Evil Repute. IV.--Bathing Pictures. V.--The Amber Merchant. VI.--On Land and Sea. VII.--The Ordensburg. VIII.--On Lago Maggiore. IX.--An Election Dinner. X.--The Proposal. XI.--In Neukuhren. XII.--Under the Pear Tree. WITHERED LEAVES. CHAPTER I. ON THE FUCHS-SPITZE. Large and full stood the moon in the eastern sky, and reflected its broken light in the troubled waves which the Baltic Sea cast upon the coast of Samland; it silvered the tangled thicket of the ravine through which here and there quivered a ray of the woodland stream, with its scanty supply of water, as with difficulty it forced its way amongst the stones onward to the ocean. The primordiate blocks of granite, which kept watch at the estuary of the streamlet, gained a venerable appearance in the light of the planets; but more venerable still appeared the primeval oaks of Perkunos, with their silvery tips, as they rose upon the rocky projection, and down whose lightning-struck stems the moonlight glided softly.