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

Chapters

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

Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note

How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus

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

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

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

Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note

How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann

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

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

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

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

Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert

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

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

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

The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine

The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann

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

The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan

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

German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen

The contest of the master-singers, by August Hagen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Germany Part VI: German authors and composers: Historical note

Stories from the eighteenth century, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

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

Germany Part VII: Two wars with France: Historical note

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

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

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

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

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

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

The watch on the Rhine, by Max Schneckenburger

Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note

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

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

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

The German Fatherland, by Ernst Moritz Arndt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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