The World’s Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art Volume 10 U.S. History – 1900s, Germany Edited by Eva March Tappan
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CONTENTS THE UNITED STATES
I.
THE TWENTIETH C ENTURY
.Mary Gay lfomplireys Joseplz 1/usband
THE ROMANCE OF THE REINDEER LEARNING CoAL-MimNG
From "A Year in a Coal-Mine." THE SOCIAL VALUE OF THE TELEPllONE IN THE UNITED STATES
Herbert N. Casson l/11glz C. Weir . . I/ugh C. Weir
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Captain J. B. Ranson, R.N.R. Constance D. Leupp • • I/ enry van Dyke
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How THE PANAMA RAILROAD WAS BUILT
p ANAMA From "The Conquest of the Isthmus."
THE STEAM SHOVEL AT
THE TRIUMPH OF THE WIRELESS
THE NATIONAL RED CROSS AT WORK "AMERICA FOR ME"
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GERMANY
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IN PAGAN TIMES
How
THE EARLY GERMANS LIVED AN APPEAL TO CJESAR
From "Cresar's Conquest of Gaul."
Caius Cornelius Tacitus T. Rice Holmes
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HERMAN, '\VHO FREED THE GERMANS FROM Rmrn
From "Germany."
BOl\"IFACE AND THE OAK OF THOR
From "Heroes of the Mission Field."
II. How
Kate Freiligrath Kroeker
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W. Pake11ha,n Walsh
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E:\,IPERORS OF MEDI.tEVAL GERMANY
CHARLEMAGNE OVERCAME THE SAXONS
Dr. William Zimmermann From "A Popular History of Germany."
THE ELECTION OF FREDERICK BARBAROSSA (THE RED-BEARDED)
From "Hohenzollern."
Cyrns Toumsend Brady
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FREDERICK OF THE RED BEARD AND THE POPE
From the Old Chronicles From "The City in the Sea," taken from the Old Chronicles by E. L. Saxon. BARBAROSSA • . . . Friedrich Riickcrt
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CONTENTS III.
How
STORIES OF THE l\IIDDLE AGES
SIEGFRIED WON A BRIDE FOR KING GUNTHER
From the Nibel11nge11licd Translated by Daniel Bussicr Shumway. BISHOP HATTO AND HIS MOUSE TOWER . . Robert Southey THE LORELEI • lleinriclz II cine THE LITTLE FAUST TOWER OF MUNICH • Franz Trautma,m From "Legends and Tales of Old Munich." IV.
LIFE IN
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THE FIFTEENTH CE�TCRY
THE GREAT HANSEATIC LEAGUE •
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THE WALLED CITIES OF GERMANY
Sabine Baring-Gould 171
From "When Knights were Dold."
From "The Story of Germany."
Johannes Janssen From"History of the German People at the Close of the :Middle Ages." THE CONTEST OF THE MASTER-Sr..GERS • • . August Hagen From "Norica." JOHN GUTENBERG, INVENTOR OF PRINTING Eva Marcli Tappan From "Old World Hero Stories." GERMAN LIFE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
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V. FROM THE REFORMATION' TO THE D EATH OF FRED ERICK THE GREAT
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Charles From "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family."
:MARTIN LUTHER AS A BoY .
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THE SACKING OF l\lAGDEBURG
han11 Johann Cliristop/z Friedrich vo11 Schiller 216 From "History of the Thirty Years' War."
THE GIANT REGnIENT OF FREDERICK WILLIAM I OF PRUSSIA THE CHILDHOOD OF FREDERICK TIIE GREAT
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Thomas Carlyle 224 Thomas Carlyle 230
From "History of Friedrich the Second." FREDERICK THE GREAT Al\'D THE FIRST SILESIAN WAR
Thomas Babington U aca11lay 240
From "Frederick the Great."
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VI. GER1-IAN AUTHORS AND CO�IPOSERS STORIES FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY V Johann T oljga11g vo11 Goethe 259 From "Hermann and Dorothea." HANDEL, THE l\lASTER OF ORATORIO . . • . L.B. Urbino 271 From" Biographical Sketches of Emine:it Musical Composers." THE UNWRITTEN OvERTURE OF �foZART . . Heribert Rau 276 From "�fozart, A Biographical Romance." A VISIT TO BEETHOVEN . . . . . . . Richard H'ag11er 288 From "Art, Life and Theories of Richard Wagner."
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VIL TWO WARS WITH FRA�CE THE OATH AT THE GRAVE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT "Louisa }.[iihlbach "(Klara ][. Mu11dt) WHY THE PHILOSOPHER'S LETTER WAS NOT MAILED "Louisa Miilzlbaclt" (Klara M. 1'Iu11dt) From"Louisa of Prussia and her Times." THE QUEEN or PRUSSIA'S RIDE . . . . • A. L.A. Smith THE TROUBLES OF A CORRESPONDENT IN THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR • • • . . . • . Fro m "All the Year Round " ToE \VATCB ON THE RHINE . . . . Max Schneckenburger
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VIII. MODERN GER.MANY BISMARCK IN THE REICHSTAG AND AT HOME George Makepeace Towle From "Certain Men of Mark." STUDENT LIFE AT THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick From "Home Life in Germany." • • },f aurice Leudet A DAY WITII THE GER:UAN EMPEROR From "The Emperor of Germany at Home." THE GERMAN FATHERLAND . . . . . Ernst Moritz Arndt
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