Volume 1: 1. Introductory; 2. Historical; 3. Political; 4. Arrival in Transylvania. First impressions; 5. Saxon historical feast. Legend; 6. The Saxons. Character, Education, Religion; 7. Saxon villages; 8. Saxon interiors. Character; 9. Saxon churches and sieges; 10. The Saxon village pastor; 11. The Saxon brotherhoods. Neighbourhoods and village hann; 12. The Saxons. Dress, spinning and dancing; 13. The Saxons. Betrothal; 14. The Saxons. Marriage; 15. The Saxon. Birth and infancy; 16. The Saxon. Death and burial; 17. The Roumanians. Their origin; 18. The Roumanians. Their religion. Popas and churches; 19. The Roumanians. Their character; 20. Roumanian life; 21. Roumanian marriage and morality; 22. The Roumanians. Dancing, songs, music, stories, and proverbs; 23. Roumanian poetry; 24. The Roumanians. Nationality and atrocities; 25. The Roumanians. Death and burial. Vampires and were-wolves; 26. Roumanians superstition. Days and hours. Volume 2: 27. Roumanian superstition continued. Animals, weather, mixed superstitions, spirits, shadows, etc.; 28. Saxon superstition. Remedies, witches, weather-makers; 29. Saxon superstition continued. Animals, plants, days; 30. Saxon customs and dramas; 31. Buried treasures; 32. The Tziganes. Liszt and Lenau; 33. The Tziganes. Their life and occupations; 34. The Tziganes. Humour, proverbs, religion and morality; 35. The gipsy fortune-teller; 36. The Tzigane musician; 37. Gipsy poetry; 38. The Szekels and Armenians; 39. Frontier regiments; 40. Wolves, bears, and other animals; 41. A Roumanian village; 42. A gipsy camp; 43. The Bruckenthals; 44. Still-life at Hermanstadt. A Transylvanian Cranford; 44. Fire and blood. The Hermanstadt murder; 46. The Klausenburg carnival; 47. Journey from Hermanstadt to Kronstadt; 48. Kronstadt; 49. Sinala; 50. Up the mountains; 51. The Bulea See; 52. The Wienerwald. A digression; 53. A week in the pine-region; 54. La Dus and Bistra; 55. A night in the Stina; 56. Farewell to Transylvania. The enchanted garden.
Gerard's informative and highly readable travelogue about the country and people of Transylvania inspired Bram Stoker when writing Dracula.
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