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

002 - Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note

003 - How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus

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

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

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

007 - Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note

008 - How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann

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

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

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

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

013 - Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert

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

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

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

017 - The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine

018 - The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann

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

020 - The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan

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

022 - German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

032 - Germany Part VI: German authors and composers: Historical note

033 - Stories from the eighteenth century, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

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

038 - Germany Part VII: Two wars with France: Historical note

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

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

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

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

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

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

045 - The watch on the Rhine, by Max Schneckenburger

046 - Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note

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

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

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

050 - The German Fatherland, by Ernst Moritz Arndt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

079 - The American Revolution in Holland, by Hendrik Willem van Loon

080 - Contrary land, by Mary Mapes Dodge

081 - The festival of Saint Nicholas, by Mary Mapes Dodge

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

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

084 - Switzerland Part I: In earliest times: Historical note

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

093 - The death of Winkelried (1386), by Walter Thornbury

094 - Switzerland Part III: Stories from Swiss history: Historical note

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

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

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

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

099 - The prison of Chillon, by Jacob Abbott

100 - The lion at Luzern, by Boyd Winchester

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

102 - Swept down by an avalanche, by Heinrich Zschokke

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

104 - The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper

105 - Tobogganing on a glacier, by John Addington Symonds

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

107 - Our borrowed scientists, by W. D. McCrackan

108 - The tiny farms of Switzerland, by Boyd Winchester

109 - How Switzerland defends herself, by Clarence Rook

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