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xviii INTRODUCTION
"There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly
the sunset
lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the
chimneys,
Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in
kirtles.
Solemnly down the street came the parish priest, and the
children
Paused in their play to kiss the hand he extended to bless
them.
Reverend walked he among them; and up rose matrons and
maidens,
Hailing his slow approach with words of affectionate
welcome."
And again about Sunday in the review: "The women carry
psalm-books in their hands, wrapped in silk
handkerchiefs." The young men "are busy counting the plaits in
the kirtles of the peasant-girls." Evangeline is not much
different from these Swedish girls (Evangeline, Part I, i,
11. 57, 58):
" Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads
and her missal,
Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and the
earrings."
Both in the description of Sweden and in Evangeline (Part
I, i, 11. 102,103) the village pastor is at once priest and
leader. "He is their patriarch, and, like Melchisedek, both
priest and king," says Longfellow in the review.
" and Father Felician,
Priest and pedagogue both in the village,"
he reechoes in Evangeline, where he writes (Part I, i, U.
69-71):
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