Illustrations PAGE TANGLEWOOD TALES Frontispiece Intent upon the quick contagion of flame The glow rests first upon those faces eagerly "My little heart beat fast and faster" 2 4 9 IO There is the material for drama in the career of almost every person whom we know . Began the evening by reading aloud. Even then the pretty bellows. 25 52 The Christmas tree in a glow of light "In their best dresses and their best faces He read the first page carefully, and with a growing confusion of thought facing page Under some spell of silence facing page Through a gate in the city walls facing page Childhood contains in the germ all that maturity ever develops The cheerful notes of the fire, singing lustily With leaf for tree, and flower for stalk. 79 85 96 99 102 107 Hidden flowers 108, 109 No more welcome guest ever comes under our roof. 114 Wrapped all visible things in a white mist of obscurity. It is a veritable new world which stretches away, white and silent, toward the horizon 144 facing page 145 Dear faces of the household 158, 159 "Mamma, please play that " Of all men the most unlucky. The cuckoo flew out of his little door woman is her facing page 209 The glowing embers sent a warm thrill into our very hearts A clear, cold winter's morning facing page 220 facing page 227 233 The little village in the hollow Beautiful Magdalen tower in the distance facing page 236 Great thoughts rise out of the silent deep 247 Spring out of the hidden places of the soil. 249 A village remote 252 One finds in solitude only that which he takes into it. 253 Where the apple blossoms still rain the sweetness of perennial summer 254 There is no symbol of permanency so impressive as a mountain range |