THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
THE IDEAL WORLD

BY
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
(LORD LYTTON)



THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE



TO HENRY LYTTON BULWER.

ALLOW me, my dear Brother, to dedicate this Work to you. The greater
part of it (namely, the tales which vary and relieve the voyages of
Gertrude and Trevylyan) was written in the pleasant excursion we made
together some years ago. Among the associations--some sad and some
pleasing--connected with the general design, none are so agreeable to me
as those that remind me of the friendship subsisting between us, and
which, unlike that of near relations in general, has grown stronger and
more intimate as our footsteps have receded farther from the fields where
we played together in our childhood. I dedicate this Work to you with
the more pleasure, not only when I remember that it has always been a
favourite with yourself, but when I think that it is one of my writings
most liked in foreign countries; and I may possibly, therefore, have
found a record destined to endure the affectionate esteem which this