Mary, the queen of the House of David and mother of Jesus
Subtitle: the story of her life
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : A.S. Gray
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Chapter I.  — The Queen's Portrait.; title: "A form beloved comes again"  — Inspired painters in voyage of discovery  — Tributes to Mary, honoring all womankind  — Guido's wish  — Madonnas of many climes. Raphael's "Transfigured Woman" Savonarola's bonfire St. Luke's picture of the Virgin  — The Vandal spirit. Page 29; title: Chapter II.  — The Pilgrim, Crusader and Virgin.; title: Life a pilgrimage  — Pilgrims of many faiths  — A struggle for holy places between the Pilgrim-Crusaders and Moslem  — The harem and the home  — The rise of Chivalry  — The Knights and "Our Lady"  — The results of the Crusades Page 36; title: Chapter III.  — Armageddon "The Key and Sickle."; title: "The wandering hermit wakes the storms of war"  — Acre and Esdraelon, the "Armageddon" or "Mountain of the Gospel" of the Scriptures  — The battle-field of nations — The City of Jeanne d'Arc. The jewel in the sickle-haft  — Prince Edward, the Crusade leader  — Sultan Kha-tel — The sacking of Acre  — Actors introduced. Page 48; title: Chapter IV.  — Sir Charleroy ; The Soldier of Fortune and Knight of Saint Mary.; title: The flight from Acre to Nazareth  — The born-leader  — Life estimates with Death holding the scales  — A prince honors, a bishop blesses, and a mother loves  — An epitome of paradoxes. Page 53; title: Chapter V.  — Nazareth.; title: Nazareth, the place of Mary's nativity  — The choice of a leader  — The coward king  — The Virgin's Fount  — English songsters  — The Knights' mountain Litany  — Longings for home and mother  — Nain and Endor's lessons, Page 61; title: Chapter VI,  — The Fugitives.; title: A night bivouac amid sacred scenes  — The "Knight of the Holy-Sepulcher" who fled on "a white charger with black wings"  — The funeral at dawn  — Mary's palm-bearing angel-guard  — The twelve knights separate into two parties  — Will-makings and farewells  — By Endor to oblivion Page 74; title: Chapter VII.  — Ichabod.; title: Sir Charleroy's band approach Shunem, the City of Elijah — The surprise  — Sir Charleroy the captive of Azrael the Mameluke  — The Mohammedan heaven depicted  — "A hair, the bridge over hell"  — The odoriferous houris  — A gorgeous charnel-house blasted  — The prodigal becomes the herald of purity  — The Knight of Saint Mary and the Jewish Spy  — Adversity makes the Knight and the Jew friends  — The Knight instructing Ichabod  —  "Till Shiloh comes"  — "The true, refined and final Judaism"  — "The east and the west embracing; truth leading."  — An honest doubt is a real prayer.   Page 82; title: Chapter VIII.  — From Jericho to Jordon.; title: The radiant proselyte  — Climbing to glory  — The ghostly forms hovering over submerged Sodom  — Jordon's sweetening  — Siddim-angels among the willows and oleanders by the Dead Sea  — Summonsed to fight for the Crescent or go to the slave mart  — Nourahmal "The light of the harem" becomes the disciple and friend of Ichabod — A debate concerning women  — A rarity and a wonder  — "I told her women had souls ; she laughed like a monkey"  — The flight from Jericho by night  — The lightning  — God's torch  — "Canst thou dance rocks into camels"  — A mummy's flight, and the burial of a live man  — "Unclean"  — The solemn passage of Jordan     Page 93; title: Chapter IX.  — The Feast of The Rose.; title: A breakfast of lentils and barley in the wilderness  — The gloom of the Knight and the joy of the Jew  — Sermons on fate and songs in flowers  — The poetry of Ichabod  — Celibacy a reward at Rome  — Kneph "The father ot his mother"  — The heathen and the Christian "Feast of the Rose"  — The summary of the events in Mary's life and in the life of Jesus  — The Egyptian Rosary  — Neb-ta the maiden sister  — The egg and the cross, ancient signs of immortality  — The Copt priest  — The insights of the Egyptians symbolized by the Sphinx. Page 113; title: Chapter X.  — After Eve, Esther or Mary?; title: By Jabbock, in the native place of Ichabod  — Israelitish maidens keeping the feast of Esther  — Religious love, filial love and lover's love  — The poetic Jew's rhapsody concerning affection  — God's voice in the Garden  — The ideal women of the Old Testament and of the New  — The Jew's cry for mother  — Vacillating Sir Charleroy  — "Echo's Magic"  — Jewish customs. Page 135; title: Chapter XI.  — The Feast of Purim.; title: A night-scene by Jabbock  — Harrimai the priest, and his daughter Rizpah  — The religious ceremonial and the revel  — Sir Charleroy and Rizpah as "Ahasuerus and Esther"  — The Knight's secret discovered  — Conquest of a woman's heart through pity  — "Of what metals Jewish maidens are." Page 152; title: Chapter XII.  — Astarte or Mary?; title: The Knight of Saint Mary enslaved by a Hebrew beauty — The journey toward Bozrah  — The Mameluke attack — The hand to hand fight  — Sir Charleroy wounded and Ichabod slain  — Rizpah's heroism in peril  — Espousal in the face of death  — A wonderful vision. Page 170; title: Chapter XIII.  — From Ramoth Gtlead to Damascus; title: Teacher and pupil become patient and nurse  — Perilous relations  — Delights, assurances, fears and clouds  — Harrimai's discovery and his malediction  — Love's debate and decision  — Elopement by night  — the Knight and the Jewess wedded at Damascus.  Page 182; title: Chapter XIV.  — The Theater of the Giants.; title: The death of Harrimai  — A honey-moon in the "Eye of the East"  — To Bashan with the Mecca chaplet-seekers  — Nature, art and desolation  — Lejah's black lava-sea  — The frenzies of Gerash's passion-flower  — Reaction after exaltation  — "A camel voyage in-sea"  — Rizpah's challenge — Jealous of Sir Charleroy's love for Mary  — "Illusion" — The church of Saint George at Edrei  — Recrimination — Ridicule costly to pride  — Neither Christian, Jew nor Pagan  — A woman with unsettled faith  — A babe poisoned by its mother's passion  — The lamp and the palm-trees — The Knight's appeals  — Omens  — A beacon needed  — Fleeing the Lejah  — To Bozrah Page 195; title: Chapter XV.  — The Revels of Men and the rites of Their Goddesses.; title: Kunawatat the City of Job  — The Shrine of Astarte  — The Cyclopean image  — Questioning the Soul, Time and God  — Hugeness, greatness ; littleness, caricature  — The naked worshipers of the golden calf  — Sins exposed  — Purity's vision  — Phallic mysteries  — Khem  — Female deities  — Dualism  — Immortality by progeny and by regeneration  — The fire-worshiper's mystic number eight, and the Jewish covenant number seven. Page 212; title: Chapter XVI.  — A Battle of Giants at Bozrah.; title: Houses forty centuries old  — The old stone-house of an ancient giant becomes the home of the knight and his wife  — How circumstances change people  — Recriminations and reconciliation  — "The gall taken from animals offered to Juno, goddess of marriage"  — Rizpah's temper that seemed brilliant before wedlock, afterward seems to Sir Charleroy very like that of a virago  — The charming nonsense of those for the first time parents  — Shall she be named Davidah, Angela, Marah or Mary?  — The Christian and Jewish faith battle about the cradle  — The separation of husband and wife, in anger  — The sick child and the desolated, deserted wife  — Rizpah longs for a mother, such as Mary of Bethlehem. Page 224; title: Chapter XVII.  — Rizpah the Ancient Mother of Sorrows.; title: After many years, Rizpah dwells in Bozrah with her three children  — Rizpah of Bozrah fascinated by Rizpah of Gibeah  — Miriamne the daughter of Rizpah  — The daughter appalled by her mother's mysterious hallucinations  — The wonders of mother-love  — The story of the ancient, Jewish "Mother of Sorrows"  — The omen of the bat and the parable of the stars.  Page 245; title: Chapter XVIII.  — The Queen Proclaimed in the Giant City.; title: The old and the young Jews  — The old Christian priest and his Jewess proselyte  — Attacked by Mamelukes  — The "Old Clock Man"  — The Balsam Band  — Miriamne, the Jewess proselyte, questions concerning the queen of the old priest's heart  — The miraculous picture of Mary at Damascus  — Silver hands and feet  — Crown jewels Page 264; title: Chapter XIX.  — The Story of Mary's Childhood. Page 282; title: Chapter XX.  — The Wedding  — The Birth and the Flight.; title: The birth of Jesus and the flight to Egypt  — Miriamne reads to her mother a Christian account of Mary's espousal  — Rizpah curious but doubtful. Page 293; title: Chapter XXI.  — The Queen and Her Family in Egypt.; title: Father Adolphus and Miriamne converse of the Holy Family's sojourn in Egypt  — Heliopolis and the Temple of the Sun  — Fire-worshipers  — At Memphis, the snrine of Apis the sacred bull  — The red heifer of Israel  — The Holy Family rescued in Egypt by a robber who afterward died on the cross next to the Savior  — The legend of a gipsy's prophecy concerning Jesus  — Zingarella won by the Virgin. Page 312; title: Chapter XXII.  — The Shadow of the Cross.; title: Rizpah dreading heresy yet charmed by the story of the "Girl Wife"  — "Behold my mother and brethren"  — Christ's message to his widowed mother  — The "Church of the Terror"  — Rizpah's vision of "Glad Tidings." Rizpah of Bozrah allured from Rizpah of Gibeah  — A hot-chase after an old love  — The sword that pierced Mary  — The shadow of the cross horrifies Rizpah  — The faith of the Nazarene denounced  — Miriamne driven from home by her mother Page 322; title: Chapter XXIII.  — The Miserere and the Easter Anthem.; title: Miriamne alone at night in the giant city  — A refuge at the Christian priest's  — The midnight Miserere  — Penitents — Easter at Bozrah  — Finding the mother-love in God's heart Page 337; title: Chapter XXIV.  — A Heroine's Pilgrimage.; title: The convert's yearnings  — "Go and tell"  — When parents oppose each other which shall the child follow?  — A child of the kingdom in a new family circle  — Jesus, Mary and the elect  — Miriamne's two great ambitions  — Living apart may be as sinful as actual divorcement  — Father Adolphus encourages and Rizpah opposes Miriamne  — Rizpah recounts to Miriamne the story of her love for Sir Charleroy, his madness and her own futile visit to London in the effort to win him back  — The curse of heredity  — "I'll disown thee with tears in my voice and kisses in my heart." Page 351; title: Chapter XXV.  — Consolatrix Afflictorum.; title: Miriamne's welcome by the London Palestineans  — The daughter meets her father in a mad-house  — Disappointment  — The flight  — The search  — The White Madonna of the Asylum Park  — Love the remedy of minds perturbed by hate  — Pallas-Athene the virgin of the heathen — Mijiamne's letter to her mother and its grim answer. Page 367; title: Chapter XXVI.  — The Wedding at Cana.; title: Sir Charleroy giving signs of recovery under Miriamne's ministries  — A remarkable service in the chapel of the Palestineans  — The knight interested in the story of Cana  — The address of Cornelius, on "Home" and "Marriage"  — "Is this London or Bozrah?"  — Sir Charleroy's sudden relapse  — Miriamne's adroit ministries  — Memories that awaken hopes  — The clouds again lifting  — Mary's life motto Page 381; title: Chapter XXVII.  — The Star of the Sea.; title: Sir Charleroy, partially restored, with Miriamne and Cornelius journeying toward Syria  — Passing Cyprus  — Olympus  — A storm rising on the Mediterranean  — Cornelius presses his love suit on Miriamne  — Miriamne pledges love, but pleads her mission as a barrier to marriage  — Conflicts below, tempests aloft  — A dream ; Venus's court and Mary's triumph  — Sir Charleroy in frenzy defying the billows  — An hour of peril  — The "Lightning Song" of the sailors  — The twin stars  — "Mary, Star of the Sea"  — The victims of fabricated consciences  — Parting. Page 397; title: Chapter XXVIII.  — The Queen in the Valley of Sorrows.; title: Father and daughter at Acre  — The mysterious Hospitaler  — From Acre to Joppa  — "The myths are as full of women as the women are full of myths"  — The wars of men about women  — At Jerusalem  — The wonderful words of the Knight-Hospitaler, turned preacher  — The Via Dolorosa — The Valley of Jehosaphat  — The mountain outlook  — "Soldiers Speed the Cross"  — Mary, the sun of women, rising in moral grandeur above the women of the grove-shrines  — The panorama of the ages, passing before Mary's mind. Page 419; title: Chapter XXIX.  — Two Dead Hearts Uniting Two Living Ones.; title: From Jerusalem to Bozrah  — The tomb of Ichabod  — Sir Charleroy argues against meeting Rizpah  — Miriamne's strong argument in behalf of the lasting obligations of marriage  — A husband reaching the climax of revenges — Joseph by kindness kept Mary in sweet mood and so blessed the unborn Christ  — "Miriamne, I am a bundle of contradictions!"  — The news-rider  — A plague at Bozrah - De Griffin's twins nigh death  — Miriamne meets her mother  — Reconciliation  — A strange funeral ; only two women as mourners and pall-bearers. Page 437; title: Chapter XXX.  — The "Knight of Saint Mary" and Rizpah at the Grave of their Sons.; title: Father Adolphus and Sir Charleroy  — A ruined temple and a ruined man  — "A woman, a woman leading in religion!"  — Jesus and Magdalena  — The twelve appearings of the lingering Christ  — The Savior's love-letter from heaven to His mother  — Lucifer's attempt at suicide  — The kiss befouled by treason  — The meeting of Sir Charleroy and Rizpah  — "The tomb of giant-love grown to mad-hate." Page 453; title: Chapter XXXI.  — The Rose, Queen of Hearts in Bozrah.; title: A scene of domestic happiness  — Love the vassal of the will — Neb-ta in the "Judgment Hall of Truth"  — The lambs that are offered by sectarian hates  — The Arcana of glorious wedded love  — Rizpah transformed  — Miriamne's public profession of Christ  — Cornelius Woelfkin again appeals for union in wedlock  — An inner and an outer Miriamne  — The coronation of love  — The solemn espousal. Page 467; title: Chapter XXXII.  — The Queen and the Grail-seekers.; title: "The gold of my heart to the man that piloted me to happiness"  — Miriamne yearns for a world in sin  — Has the Church or God failed?  — A revolutionary reformer  — The Story of the grail quest  — The quest of a heavenly cure for human ills  — The triumphant Adam and Eve  — The queenly women of patriarchal times  — The mother of the Savior as the wife of a carpenter  — What kept her young heart from breaking  — Miriamne's farewell to Bozrah. Page 484; title: Chapter XXXI II.  — The Hospitaler's Oration.; title: The secret meeting of the Knights at the house of Phebe  — Swords bent sickle-like and spears crossed  — After war, social victories  — Sunrise at midnight  — Each career determined by the life that gives life  — The girdle of Venus  — Next after God, Mary chiefly instrumental in giving the world a Savior Page 498; title: Chapter XXXIV.  — Memorials at Bozrah.; title: The death of Dorothea  — The priest of the wayside — The wedding of Cornelius and Miriamne  — A pilgrimage to the tombs of Adolphus, Charieroy and Eizpah. Back-look, and outlooks Page 510; title: Chapter XXXV.  — The Sisters of Bethany.; title: The Missioners at Bethany  — The site of the Home of Jesus  — Miriamne's ideal society  — The miracle age  — A home, not a throne, the place of Ascension  — Will Jesus so return? — The angel bivouac Page 522; title: Chapter XXXVI.  — The Queen of the House of David.; title: The Knight's Pentecost  — In the upper room of Joseph of Arimathaea  — Mary's title and realm  — Luke, the word-painter  — The smoke side and the fire side of Pentecost. Page 529; title: Chapter XXXVII.  — The Coronation of the Queen.; title: The Hospitaler deemed a prophet at Bethany. The legitimacy of Jesus as the "son of David" assured through His mother  — "The reign of blood"  — First born  — Pagan Rome made sponsor for Mary's son  — Doomsday books and royal charters Page 538; title: Chapter XXXVIII.  — The "light of the Harem" in the "Temple of Allegory"; title: The old church at Bethany  — A dedication  — The wonders of symbolism  — Idolatry and Mariolatry. Page 548; title: Chapter XXXIX.  — Crown Jewels.; title: The Hospitaler warns the Missioners of the Sheik of Jerusalem's designs  — The son of Azrael  — Immunity purchased — The wedding of Beulah, Nourahmal's grand-daughter to a Jewish convert  — The wedding address  — Juno-Moneta — Crown jewels of maidens and mothers  — Mary sounding the depths of woman's miseries  — A malediction for lust  — "Knights of the White Cross"  — The lost woman dreaming of how it seems to have a mother's arms infolding her  — The Virgin's potent example Page 568; title: Chapter XL.  — The Queen's Vision of the Age of Gold and Fire.; title: NouraLmal wed to the Druse camel-driver  — the Druse converted  — The Hospitaler's message  — Ezekiel prophecies fulfilled at Olivet  — The "Mother's pillow"  — Gabriel, the "Angel of Mothers and of Victories." Page 581; title: Chapter XLI.  — A Chime and a Dirge at Christmas-Time.; title: "Motherhood priced"  — "Thou shalt be saved in child-bearing  — Sylvan gods of Rome  — "The Miriamites,"  — "In Rama, weeping and great mourning"  — Joachim's bleating iamb slain  — Woman's supreme hour  — Maternity's crucifixion  — "The Caesarian Section"  — The ebbing-tide and the stranded wreck, at midnight. Page 595; title: Chapter XLII.  — The Mother of Sorrows Triumphant at Last.; title: The funeral of Miriamne  — The Hospitaler tells the traditions of Mary's death and assumption  — What the Druse convert said to his camel  — "The beatings of mighty wings" — The tomb of Miriamne in Gethsemane. Page 611; title: Chapter XLIII.  — A Coffin Full of Flowers, and a Girdle with Wings.; title: Cornelius and his son at Bethany  — Changed scenes  — Under the lights and shadows of Chemosh  — A widower's grief  — Azrael's putative son razes to the ground Miriamne's home and temple  — The legend of Mary's coffin and girdle — The last of the new grail-knights  — A sad and dramatic tableau.   618; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.; title: I.; title: Mary and the Infant Jesus,   Frontispiece; title: (The original painted by Goodall.); title: II.; title: The Birth of Mary 60; title: (The original painted by Murillo.); title: III.; title: Rizpah Defending the Dead Bodies of Her Relations, 250; title: (The original painted by Becker.); title: IV.; title: The Education of Mary, 282; title: (The original painted by Carl Muller.); title: V.; title: The Marriage of Mary and Joseph,   294; title: (The original painted by Raphael.); title: VI.; title: The Shadow of the Cross, 332; title: (The original painted by Morris.); title: VII.; title: Jesus at the Age of Twelve with Mary and Joseph on their way to Jerusalem   350; title: (The original painted by Mengelburg.); title: VIII.; title: The Youth Jesus Yielding to the Wishes of His Mother, 366; title: (The original painted by W. Holman Hunt.); title: IX.; title: The Wedding at Cana,  380; title: (The original painted by Paul Veronese.); title: X.; title: Mary and St. John,    433; title: (The original painted by Plockhorst.)