Perhaps this volume is best memorialized by its mention In a A Tramp Abroad byMark Twain where he writes In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upona boo... » 

Perhaps this volume is best memorialized by its mention In a A Tramp Abroad byMark Twain where he writes In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upona book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled The Legends of theRhine from Basle to Rotterdam by F. J. Kiefer translated by L. W. Garnham.All tourists mention the Rhine legendsin that sort of way which quietlypretends that the mentioner has been familiar with them all his life and thatthe reader cannot possibly be ignorant of thembut no tourist ever tells them.So this little book fed me in a very hungry place and I in my turn intend tofeed my reader with one or two little lunches from the same larder. I shallnot mar Garnharns translation by meddling with its English for the mosttoothsome thing about it is its quaint fashion of building English sentences onthe German planand punctuating them accordingly to no plan at all. Due to theage and scarcity of the original we reproduced some pages may be spotty fadedor difficult to read. «