THE

RING OF AMASI S.

FROM THE PAPERS OF A GERMAN PHYSICIAN.

BY

ROBERT BULWER LYTTON.

("OWEN MEREDITH.")

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

CONTENTS.

PART I.

THE DOCTOR.

Polonius. This is too long.

Hamlet. It shall to the barber's with your beard.

Hamlet, Act II., Scene 2.

II. THE LORELEY.-STRANGE CONDUCT OF A GENTLEMAN IN

BLACK............

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III. I DRAW MY OWN CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE GENTLEMAN IN

IV. UNFORESEEN OCCURRENCE AT ST. GOAR.-THE GENTLE-

MAN IN BLACK DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF

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V. THE LORELEY IN PERSON........

VI. PUBLIC OPINION. WE REACH COLOGNE. THE OLD

CRANE ON THE OLD TOWER, AND WHAT IT SEEMS TO

BE SAYING

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CHAP.

BOOK II.

The Secret.

Mac. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased;

Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;

Raze out the written troubles of the brain;

And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,

Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff

That weighs upon the heart?

Doct.

Must minister to himself.

Therein the patient

Mac. Throw physic to the dogs. I'll none of it.

Macbeth, Act V., Scene 4.

I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND PARENTHETICAL, CONTAINING SUN-

DRY REFLECTIONS UPON THE RELATIVE POSITION OF

PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT...........

II. APPARITIONS

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III. AND WHAT THEY LEAVE BEHIND THEM.

IV. THEORY OF APPARITIONS.....

V. THEORY CONFOUNDED BY FACT

VI. ADVICE TO SIGHT-SEERS...........................

VII. THE GAMBLING-HOUSE IN THE RUE

VIII. THE DOOR OF THE SECRET.

IX. REMAINS SHUT

Х. НОМЕ!..........

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