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

Eva March Tappan (1854 - 1930)

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

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, War & Military Fiction

Language: English

Group: World's Story

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	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	00:02:49
Play 02	Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note	Sonia	00:01:35
Play 03	How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus	Sonia	00:07:03
Play 04	An appeal to Caesar (58 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes	Jim Locke	00:23:00
Play 05	Herman, who freed the Germans from Rome (9 A.D.), by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker	Sonia	00:05:55
Play 06	Boniface and the oak of Thor (about 723), by the Right Rev. W. Pakenham Walsh	Christina Close	00:09:20
Play 07	Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note	Kristine Bekere	00:02:59
Play 08	How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann	Kristine Bekere	00:13:51
Play 09	The Margrave Gero and the Vandals, by Theodor von Heyden (German artist, 1827), painting p. 36	Sonia	00:01:33
Play 10	The election of Frederick Barbarossa (the red-bearded) (1152), by Cyrus Townsend Brady	Foon	00:14:43
Play 11	Frederick of the Red Beard and the Pope (1177), from the old chronicles	Joseph Barbaccia	00:11:02
Play 12	Frederick Barbarossa at the feet of the Pope, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 48	Alan Mapstone	00:02:14
Play 13	Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert	Tomas Peter	00:02:10
Play 14	Germany Part III: Stories of the Middle Ages: Historical note	Sonia	00:01:40
Play 15	How Siegfried won a bride for King Gunther, from the Nibelungenlied	Jim Locke	00:22:20
Play 16	Bishop Hatto and his mouse tower (about 968), by Robert Southey	cathar maiden	00:05:04
Play 17	The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine	cathar maiden	00:01:38
Play 18	The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann	Jim Locke	00:23:15
Play 19	Germany Part IV: Life in the fifteenth century: Historical note	Foon	00:02:53
Play 20	The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan	Colleen McMahon	00:09:05
Play 21	The walled cities of Germany, by Sabine Baring-Gould, with the collaboration of Arthur Gilman	Colleen McMahon	00:08:35
Play 22	German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen	Colleen McMahon	00:14:11
Play 23	The contest of the master-singers, by August Hagen	Jim Locke	00:23:26
Play 24	John Gutenberg, inventor of printing (middle of the sixteenth century), by Eva March Tappan	Jim Locke	00:06:30
Play 25	Germany Part V: From the Reformation to the death of Frederick the Great: Historical note	Alan Mapstone	00:03:27
Play 26	Martin Luther as a boy (about 1500), by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Charles	Jim Locke	00:19:34
Play 27	The sacking of Magdeburg (1631), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller	Jim Locke	00:12:59
Play 28	The giant regiment of Frederick William I of Prussia (between 1713 and 1740), by Thomas Carlyle	Greg Giordano	00:11:39
Play 29	The childhood of Frederick the Great (about 1720), by Thomas Carlyle	Jim Locke	00:18:13
Play 30	Frederick the Great and the First Silesian War (1740-1745), by Thomas Babington Macaulay	Jim Locke	00:25:00
Play 31	The round table of Frederick the Great at Sans Souci, by Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel (Germany, 1815-1905), painting p. 178	Foon	00:02:54
Play 32	Germany Part VI: German authors and composers: Historical note	Monika M. C.	00:02:19
Play 33	Stories from the eighteenth century, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Jim Locke	00:12:45
Play 34	Morning prayers in the Bach family, by Toby Edward Rosenthal (American painter, 1848), painting p. 190	Tomas Peter	00:02:20
Play 35	Handel, the master of Oratorio (1685-1759), by L. B. Urbino	Alan Mapstone	00:11:06
Play 36	The unwritten overture of Mozart (1756-1791), by Heribert Rau	ToddHW	00:17:36
Play 37	A visit to Beethoven (1770-1827), by Richard Wagner	Jim Locke	00:23:45
Play 38	Germany Part VII: Two wars with France: Historical note	April6090	00:02:30
Play 39	The oath at the grave of Frederick the Great (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt)	Greg Giordano	00:10:38
Play 40	Why the philosopher's letter was not mailed (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt)	April6090	00:09:58
Play 41	The Queen of Prussia's ride (1806), by A. L. A. Smith	cathar maiden	00:02:38
Play 42	William of Prussia proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles, by Anton von Werner (Germany, 1843), painting p. 236	Alan Mapstone	00:02:33
Play 43	The troubles of a correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War (1870), from "All the Year Round"	Jim Locke	00:18:33
Play 44	German wounded in the Gallery of Mirrors, Versailles, by Victor Bachereau-Reverchon (French artist, 1842), painting p. 248	Alan Mapstone	00:03:15
Play 45	The watch on the Rhine, by Max Schneckenburger	Alan Mapstone	00:03:17
Play 46	Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note	cathar maiden	00:01:54
Play 47	Bismarck in the Reichstag and at home (about 1880), by George Makepeace Towle	Jim Locke	00:19:54
Play 48	Student life at the German universities (about 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick	Jim Locke	00:10:40
Play 49	A day with the German Emperor (1898), by Maurice Leudet	ChadH94	00:12:25
Play 50	The German Fatherland, by Ernst Moritz Arndt	Alan Mapstone	00:03:38
Play 51	The Netherlands Part I: From the Roman conquest to the Reformation: Historical note	Kristine Bekere	00:02:39
Play 52	Besieging a Roman camp (54 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes	Kristine Bekere	00:14:31
Play 53	The rebellion of Civilis (69 A.D.), by Caius Cornelius Tacitus	Kristine Bekere	00:07:53
Play 54	How Count William of Holland was made a knight (1247), from the old chronicles	Jim Locke	00:05:54
Play 55	How Philip van Artevelde was made Governor of Ghent (1386), by Sir John Froissart	Kirstin De Falco	00:08:44
Play 56	The childhood of Charles V: a reading by Erasmus, by Eduard Jean Conrad Hamman (Belgian painter, 1819), painting p. 302	Foon	00:03:03
Play 57	The Netherlands Part II: How Holland won her freedom: Historical note	Alan Mapstone	00:03:22
Play 58	The ''beggars'' of Holland (1566), by John Lothrop Motley	April6090	00:19:28
Play 59	The siege of Leyden (1574), by John Lothrop Motley	Philip Watson	00:22:15
Play 60	The assassination of William the Silent (1584), by John Lothrop Motley	Kirstin De Falco	00:19:46
Play 61	Sir Philip Sidney and the glass of water (1586), by John Lothrop Motley	Tomas Peter	00:05:06
Play 62	How a turf-boat captured the city of Breda (1590), by G. T. Hoare	Foon	00:09:24
Play 63	The Netherlands Part III: The period of commercial greatness: Historical note	Foon	00:02:48
Play 64	How a mud-hole became a garden, by William Elliot Griffis	Jim Locke	00:17:11
Play 65	When the pilgrim fathers went to Holland (1608), by William Bradford	Ruth P.	00:16:18
Play 66	The surrender of Breda, by Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660), painting p. 368	Alan Mapstone	00:02:29
Play 67	The escape of Hugo de Groot (1621), by Frederick Spencer Bird	Foon	00:18:08
Play 68	The return of Spinoza (about 1653), by Israel Zangwill	Jim Locke	00:10:26
Play 69	The rival tulip-growers (1672), by Alexandre Dumas	ToddHW	00:18:21
Play 70	When William III of England came home to his fatherland (1691), by Thomas Babington Macaulay	Jim Locke	00:15:29
Play 71	The Netherlands Part IV: Little stories of Netherland artists: Historical note	Foon	00:02:03
Play 72	King Philip presenting Rubens to Velasquez, by Leon y Escosura (Spanish artist, 1834-1901), painting p. 406	Tomas Peter	00:02:03
Play 73	Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), by Theodore Child	Nella	00:05:51
Play 74	Anton Vandyck (1599-1641), by Clara Erskine Clement	Foon	00:08:58
Play 75	Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'', by Théophile Gautier	Jim Locke	00:08:57
Play 76	The Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Ryn (born at Leyden, 1607. Died in 1669), painting p. 414	Foon	00:02:24
Play 77	Rembrandt in his studio, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 416	cathar maiden	00:02:18
Play 78	The Netherlands Part V: The Netherlands in recent years: Historical note	Foon	00:02:45
Play 79	The American Revolution in Holland, by Hendrik Willem van Loon	Philip Watson	00:20:12
Play 80	Contrary land, by Mary Mapes Dodge	Foon	00:15:12
Play 81	The festival of Saint Nicholas, by Mary Mapes Dodge	Foon	00:19:06
Play 82	In and out of a cab in Amsterdam, by F. Hopkinson Smith	April6090	00:13:10
Play 83	The beloved Queen Wilhelmina (born in 1880), by William Elliot Griffis	Foon	00:12:31
Play 84	Switzerland Part I: In earliest times: Historical note	Scotty Smith	00:01:47
Play 85	The siege of the Lake-Dwellers, by Sir Arthur Helps	Scotty Smith	00:06:48
Play 86	The flight of the Helvetians (58 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan	Jim Locke	00:07:52
Play 87	The Devil's Bridge over the Reuss, by H. A. Guerber	Tomas Peter	00:07:09
Play 88	Switzerland Part II: How the Swiss gained their freedom: Historical note	April6090	00:02:22
Play 89	The meeting at the Rütli (1307), by Heinrich Zschokke	Rob Marland	00:06:19
Play 90	The shot of William Tell (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller	Group	00:22:32
Play 91	Tell's escape (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller	Group	00:04:28
Play 92	Song of the Battle of Morgarten (1315), by Felicia Dorothea Hemans	cathar maiden	00:05:01
Play 93	The death of Winkelried (1386), by Walter Thornbury	rumpledpoetry	00:05:43
Play 94	Switzerland Part III: Stories from Swiss history: Historical note	April6090	00:02:37
Play 95	The Baron of Raron and the ''Mazze'' (fifteenth century), by J. Wilson	Jim Locke	00:03:30
Play 96	Peace or war ? (1474), by Sir Walter Scott	Jim Locke	00:24:27
Play 97	How the Swiss met Charles the Bold of Burgundy (1476) by Heinrich Zschokke	Jim Locke	00:09:01
Play 98	The milk porridge incident: a story of the Reformation, by Clarence Rook	Jim Locke	00:04:54
Play 99	The prison of Chillon, by Jacob Abbott	Scotty Smith	00:12:03
Play 100	The lion at Luzern, by Boyd Winchester	Sonia	00:04:19
Play 101	Switzerland Part IV: Stories of Alpine adventure: Historical note	April6090	00:02:56
Play 102	Swept down by an avalanche, by Heinrich Zschokke	Devorah Allen	00:09:44
Play 103	The slide of Alpnach, by L. A. Gilbert	Availle	00:08:35
Play 104	The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper	April6090	00:12:05
Play 105	Tobogganing on a glacier, by John Addington Symonds	Jim Locke	00:10:17
Play 106	Switzerland Part V: Life in the mountains: Historical note	Monika M. C.	00:01:57
Play 107	Our borrowed scientists, by W. D. McCrackan	Sonia	00:06:05
Play 108	The tiny farms of Switzerland, by Boyd Winchester	Devorah Allen	00:06:17
Play 109	How Switzerland defends herself, by Clarence Rook	Availle	00:13:51
Play 110	How the Swiss built the greatest tunnel in the world, by Francis Fox	Sonia	00:08:38

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