The Story of Siegfried

By
James Baldwin

New York Charles Scribner's Sons
1899



To My Children,

Winfred, Louis, and Nellie,

This Book Is Affectionately Inscribed.





The Fore Word.



When the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the
works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied
that every thing upon the earth, in the air, or in the
water, had a life like their own, and that every sight which
they saw, and every sound which they heard, was caused by
some intelligent being. All men were poets, so far as their