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

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

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Number of Chapters: 110

Length: 17 hours and 12 minutes

Language: English

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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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 (Sonia)
Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note (Sonia)
How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus (Sonia)
An appeal to Caesar (58 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes (Jim Locke)
Herman, who freed the Germans from Rome (9 A.D.), by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (Sonia)
Boniface and the oak of Thor (about 723), by the Right Rev. W. Pakenham Walsh (Christina Close)
Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann (Kristine Bekere)
The Margrave Gero and the Vandals, by Theodor von Heyden (German artist, 1827), painting p. 36 (Sonia)
The election of Frederick Barbarossa (the red-bearded) (1152), by Cyrus Townsend Brady (Foon)
Frederick of the Red Beard and the Pope (1177), from the old chronicles (Joseph Barbaccia)
Frederick Barbarossa at the feet of the Pope, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 48 (Alan Mapstone)
Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert (Tomas Peter)
Germany Part III: Stories of the Middle Ages: Historical note (Sonia)
How Siegfried won a bride for King Gunther, from the Nibelungenlied (Jim Locke)
Bishop Hatto and his mouse tower (about 968), by Robert Southey (cathar maiden)
The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine (cathar maiden)
The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann (Jim Locke)
Germany Part IV: Life in the fifteenth century: Historical note (Foon)
The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan (Colleen McMahon)
The walled cities of Germany, by Sabine Baring-Gould, with the collaboration of Arthur Gilman (Colleen McMahon)
German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen (Colleen McMahon)
The contest of the master-singers, by August Hagen (Jim Locke)
John Gutenberg, inventor of printing (middle of the sixteenth century), by Eva March Tappan (Jim Locke)
Germany Part V: From the Reformation to the death of Frederick the Great: Historical note (Alan Mapstone)
Martin Luther as a boy (about 1500), by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Charles (Jim Locke)
The sacking of Magdeburg (1631), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (Jim Locke)
The giant regiment of Frederick William I of Prussia (between 1713 and 1740), by Thomas Carlyle (Greg Giordano)
The childhood of Frederick the Great (about 1720), by Thomas Carlyle (Jim Locke)
Frederick the Great and the First Silesian War (1740-1745), by Thomas Babington Macaulay (Jim Locke)
The round table of Frederick the Great at Sans Souci, by Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel (Germany, 1815-1905), painting p. 178 (Foon)
Germany Part VI: German authors and composers: Historical note (Monika M. C.)
Stories from the eighteenth century, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Jim Locke)
Morning prayers in the Bach family, by Toby Edward Rosenthal (American painter, 1848), painting p. 190 (Tomas Peter)
Handel, the master of Oratorio (1685-1759), by L. B. Urbino (Alan Mapstone)
The unwritten overture of Mozart (1756-1791), by Heribert Rau (ToddHW)
A visit to Beethoven (1770-1827), by Richard Wagner (Jim Locke)
Germany Part VII: Two wars with France: Historical note (April6090)
The oath at the grave of Frederick the Great (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt) (Greg Giordano)
Why the philosopher's letter was not mailed (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt) (April6090)
The Queen of Prussia's ride (1806), by A. L. A. Smith (cathar maiden)
William of Prussia proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles, by Anton von Werner (Germany, 1843), painting p. 236 (Alan Mapstone)
The troubles of a correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War (1870), from "All the Year Round" (Jim Locke)
German wounded in the Gallery of Mirrors, Versailles, by Victor Bachereau-Reverchon (French artist, 1842), painting p. 248 (Alan Mapstone)
The watch on the Rhine, by Max Schneckenburger (Alan Mapstone)
Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note (cathar maiden)
Bismarck in the Reichstag and at home (about 1880), by George Makepeace Towle (Jim Locke)
Student life at the German universities (about 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick (Jim Locke)
A day with the German Emperor (1898), by Maurice Leudet (ChadH94)
The German Fatherland, by Ernst Moritz Arndt (Alan Mapstone)
The Netherlands Part I: From the Roman conquest to the Reformation: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
Besieging a Roman camp (54 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes (Kristine Bekere)
The rebellion of Civilis (69 A.D.), by Caius Cornelius Tacitus (Kristine Bekere)
How Count William of Holland was made a knight (1247), from the old chronicles (Jim Locke)
How Philip van Artevelde was made Governor of Ghent (1386), by Sir John Froissart (Kirstin De Falco)
The childhood of Charles V: a reading by Erasmus, by Eduard Jean Conrad Hamman (Belgian painter, 1819), painting p. 302 (Foon)
The Netherlands Part II: How Holland won her freedom: Historical note (Alan Mapstone)
The ''beggars'' of Holland (1566), by John Lothrop Motley (April6090)
The siege of Leyden (1574), by John Lothrop Motley (Philip Watson)
The assassination of William the Silent (1584), by John Lothrop Motley (Kirstin De Falco)
Sir Philip Sidney and the glass of water (1586), by John Lothrop Motley (Tomas Peter)
How a turf-boat captured the city of Breda (1590), by G. T. Hoare (Foon)
The Netherlands Part III: The period of commercial greatness: Historical note (Foon)
How a mud-hole became a garden, by William Elliot Griffis (Jim Locke)
When the pilgrim fathers went to Holland (1608), by William Bradford (Ruth P.)
The surrender of Breda, by Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660), painting p. 368 (Alan Mapstone)
The escape of Hugo de Groot (1621), by Frederick Spencer Bird (Foon)
The return of Spinoza (about 1653), by Israel Zangwill (Jim Locke)
The rival tulip-growers (1672), by Alexandre Dumas (ToddHW)
When William III of England came home to his fatherland (1691), by Thomas Babington Macaulay (Jim Locke)
The Netherlands Part IV: Little stories of Netherland artists: Historical note (Foon)
King Philip presenting Rubens to Velasquez, by Leon y Escosura (Spanish artist, 1834-1901), painting p. 406 (Tomas Peter)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), by Theodore Child (Nella)
Anton Vandyck (1599-1641), by Clara Erskine Clement (Foon)
Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'', by Théophile Gautier (Jim Locke)
The Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Ryn (born at Leyden, 1607. Died in 1669), painting p. 414 (Foon)
Rembrandt in his studio, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 416 (cathar maiden)
The Netherlands Part V: The Netherlands in recent years: Historical note (Foon)
The American Revolution in Holland, by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Philip Watson)
Contrary land, by Mary Mapes Dodge (Foon)
The festival of Saint Nicholas, by Mary Mapes Dodge (Foon)
In and out of a cab in Amsterdam, by F. Hopkinson Smith (April6090)
The beloved Queen Wilhelmina (born in 1880), by William Elliot Griffis (Foon)
Switzerland Part I: In earliest times: Historical note (Scotty Smith)
The siege of the Lake-Dwellers, by Sir Arthur Helps (Scotty Smith)
The flight of the Helvetians (58 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan (Jim Locke)
The Devil's Bridge over the Reuss, by H. A. Guerber (Tomas Peter)
Switzerland Part II: How the Swiss gained their freedom: Historical note (April6090)
The meeting at the Rütli (1307), by Heinrich Zschokke (Rob Marland)
The shot of William Tell (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (Group)
Tell's escape (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (Group)
Song of the Battle of Morgarten (1315), by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (cathar maiden)
The death of Winkelried (1386), by Walter Thornbury (rumpledpoetry)
Switzerland Part III: Stories from Swiss history: Historical note (April6090)
The Baron of Raron and the ''Mazze'' (fifteenth century), by J. Wilson (Jim Locke)
Peace or war ? (1474), by Sir Walter Scott (Jim Locke)
How the Swiss met Charles the Bold of Burgundy (1476) by Heinrich Zschokke (Jim Locke)
The milk porridge incident: a story of the Reformation, by Clarence Rook (Jim Locke)
The prison of Chillon, by Jacob Abbott (Scotty Smith)
The lion at Luzern, by Boyd Winchester (Sonia)
Switzerland Part IV: Stories of Alpine adventure: Historical note (April6090)
Swept down by an avalanche, by Heinrich Zschokke (Devorah Allen)
The slide of Alpnach, by L. A. Gilbert (Availle)
The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper (April6090)
Tobogganing on a glacier, by John Addington Symonds (Jim Locke)
Switzerland Part V: Life in the mountains: Historical note (Monika M. C.)
Our borrowed scientists, by W. D. McCrackan (Sonia)
The tiny farms of Switzerland, by Boyd Winchester (Devorah Allen)
How Switzerland defends herself, by Clarence Rook (Availle)
How the Swiss built the greatest tunnel in the world, by Francis Fox (Sonia)
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