World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

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This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VII include the stories from the Nibelungen saga of the Germans, masterpieces of the Dutch Painters and the famous apple-shooting episode from Schiller's drama William Tell. - Summary by Sonia Cast list for The shot of William Tell: Walter: Stoofy / William Tell: ToddHW / Friesshard: Foon / Leuth: Jim Locke / Sacristan: Aaron White / Rosselmann: TJ Burns / Furst: alanmapstone / Stauffacher: Nemo / Melchthal: Eva Davis / Peasants: Sandra Schmit / Women: Monika M.C. / Harras: Frédéric Surget / Gessler: Tomas Peter / Bertha: Devorah Allen / Rudenz: Philip Watson / Narrator: Sonia Cast list for Tell's escape: William Tell: Jim Locke / Fisherman: Tomas Peter / Narrator: Sonia

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1Thusnelda in the triumphal procession of Germanicus, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (born at Munich, October 1, 1826. Died there, July 21, 1886), painting frontispiece

169

2Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note

3How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus

423

4An appeal to Caesar (58 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes

1380

5Herman, who freed the Germans from Rome (9 A.D.), by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker

355

6Boniface and the oak of Thor (about 723), by the Right Rev. W. Pakenham Walsh

560

7Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note

179

8How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann

831

9The Margrave Gero and the Vandals, by Theodor von Heyden (German artist, 1827), painting p. 36

10The election of Frederick Barbarossa (the red-bearded) (1152), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

883

11Frederick of the Red Beard and the Pope (1177), from the old chronicles

662

12Frederick Barbarossa at the feet of the Pope, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 48

134

13Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert

130

14Germany Part III: Stories of the Middle Ages: Historical note

100

15How Siegfried won a bride for King Gunther, from the Nibelungenlied

1340

16Bishop Hatto and his mouse tower (about 968), by Robert Southey

304

17The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine

18The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann

1395

19Germany Part IV: Life in the fifteenth century: Historical note

173

20The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan

545

21The walled cities of Germany, by Sabine Baring-Gould, with the collaboration of Arthur Gilman

515

22German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen

851

23The contest of the master-singers, by August Hagen

1406

24John Gutenberg, inventor of printing (middle of the sixteenth century), by Eva March Tappan

390

25Germany Part V: From the Reformation to the death of Frederick the Great: Historical note

207

26Martin Luther as a boy (about 1500), by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Charles

1174

27The sacking of Magdeburg (1631), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

779

28The giant regiment of Frederick William I of Prussia (between 1713 and 1740), by Thomas Carlyle

699

29The childhood of Frederick the Great (about 1720), by Thomas Carlyle

1093

30Frederick the Great and the First Silesian War (1740-1745), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

1500

31The round table of Frederick the Great at Sans Souci, by Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel (Germany, 1815-1905), painting p. 178

174

32Germany Part VI: German authors and composers: Historical note

139

33Stories from the eighteenth century, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

765

34Morning prayers in the Bach family, by Toby Edward Rosenthal (American painter, 1848), painting p. 190

140

35Handel, the master of Oratorio (1685-1759), by L. B. Urbino

666

36The unwritten overture of Mozart (1756-1791), by Heribert Rau

1056

37A visit to Beethoven (1770-1827), by Richard Wagner

1425

38Germany Part VII: Two wars with France: Historical note

150

39The oath at the grave of Frederick the Great (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt)

638

40Why the philosopher's letter was not mailed (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt)

598

41The Queen of Prussia's ride (1806), by A. L. A. Smith

158

42William of Prussia proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles, by Anton von Werner (Germany, 1843), painting p. 236

153

43The troubles of a correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War (1870), from "All the Year Round"

1113

44German wounded in the Gallery of Mirrors, Versailles, by Victor Bachereau-Reverchon (French artist, 1842), painting p. 248

195

45The watch on the Rhine, by Max Schneckenburger

197

46Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note

114

47Bismarck in the Reichstag and at home (about 1880), by George Makepeace Towle

1194

48Student life at the German universities (about 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

640

49A day with the German Emperor (1898), by Maurice Leudet

745

50The German Fatherland, by Ernst Moritz Arndt

218

51The Netherlands Part I: From the Roman conquest to the Reformation: Historical note

159

52Besieging a Roman camp (54 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes

871

53The rebellion of Civilis (69 A.D.), by Caius Cornelius Tacitus

473

54How Count William of Holland was made a knight (1247), from the old chronicles

354

55How Philip van Artevelde was made Governor of Ghent (1386), by Sir John Froissart

524

56The childhood of Charles V: a reading by Erasmus, by Eduard Jean Conrad Hamman (Belgian painter, 1819), painting p. 302

183

57The Netherlands Part II: How Holland won her freedom: Historical note

202

58The ''beggars'' of Holland (1566), by John Lothrop Motley

1168

59The siege of Leyden (1574), by John Lothrop Motley

1335

60The assassination of William the Silent (1584), by John Lothrop Motley

1186

61Sir Philip Sidney and the glass of water (1586), by John Lothrop Motley

306

62How a turf-boat captured the city of Breda (1590), by G. T. Hoare

564

63The Netherlands Part III: The period of commercial greatness: Historical note

168

64How a mud-hole became a garden, by William Elliot Griffis

1031

65When the pilgrim fathers went to Holland (1608), by William Bradford

978

66The surrender of Breda, by Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660), painting p. 368

149

67The escape of Hugo de Groot (1621), by Frederick Spencer Bird

1088

68The return of Spinoza (about 1653), by Israel Zangwill

626

69The rival tulip-growers (1672), by Alexandre Dumas

1101

70When William III of England came home to his fatherland (1691), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

929

71The Netherlands Part IV: Little stories of Netherland artists: Historical note

123

72King Philip presenting Rubens to Velasquez, by Leon y Escosura (Spanish artist, 1834-1901), painting p. 406

123

73Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), by Theodore Child

351

74Anton Vandyck (1599-1641), by Clara Erskine Clement

538

75Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'', by Théophile Gautier

537

76The Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Ryn (born at Leyden, 1607. Died in 1669), painting p. 414

144

77Rembrandt in his studio, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 416

138

78The Netherlands Part V: The Netherlands in recent years: Historical note

165

79The American Revolution in Holland, by Hendrik Willem van Loon

1212

80Contrary land, by Mary Mapes Dodge

912

81The festival of Saint Nicholas, by Mary Mapes Dodge

1146

82In and out of a cab in Amsterdam, by F. Hopkinson Smith

790

83The beloved Queen Wilhelmina (born in 1880), by William Elliot Griffis

751

84Switzerland Part I: In earliest times: Historical note

107

85The siege of the Lake-Dwellers, by Sir Arthur Helps

408

86The flight of the Helvetians (58 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan

472

87The Devil's Bridge over the Reuss, by H. A. Guerber

429

88Switzerland Part II: How the Swiss gained their freedom: Historical note

142

89The meeting at the Rütli (1307), by Heinrich Zschokke

379

90The shot of William Tell (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

1352

91Tell's escape (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

268

92Song of the Battle of Morgarten (1315), by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

301

93The death of Winkelried (1386), by Walter Thornbury

343

94Switzerland Part III: Stories from Swiss history: Historical note

157

95The Baron of Raron and the ''Mazze'' (fifteenth century), by J. Wilson

210

96Peace or war ? (1474), by Sir Walter Scott

1467

97How the Swiss met Charles the Bold of Burgundy (1476) by Heinrich Zschokke

541

98The milk porridge incident: a story of the Reformation, by Clarence Rook

294

99The prison of Chillon, by Jacob Abbott

723

100The lion at Luzern, by Boyd Winchester

259

101Switzerland Part IV: Stories of Alpine adventure: Historical note

176

102Swept down by an avalanche, by Heinrich Zschokke

584

103The slide of Alpnach, by L. A. Gilbert

515

104The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper

725

105Tobogganing on a glacier, by John Addington Symonds

617

106Switzerland Part V: Life in the mountains: Historical note

117

107Our borrowed scientists, by W. D. McCrackan

365

108The tiny farms of Switzerland, by Boyd Winchester

377

109How Switzerland defends herself, by Clarence Rook

831

110How the Swiss built the greatest tunnel in the world, by Francis Fox

518

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