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

Episodes

• 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

  Episode 1 · 2:49
• Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note

  Episode 2 · 1:35
• How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  Episode 3 · 7:03
• An appeal to Caesar (58 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes

  Episode 4 · 23:00
• Herman, who freed the Germans from Rome (9 A.D.), by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker

  Episode 5 · 5:55
• Boniface and the oak of Thor (about 723), by the Right Rev. W. Pakenham Walsh

  Episode 6 · 9:20
• Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note

  Episode 7 · 2:59
• How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann

  Episode 8 · 13:51
• The Margrave Gero and the Vandals, by Theodor von Heyden (German artist, 1827), painting p. 36

  Episode 9 · 1:33
• The election of Frederick Barbarossa (the red-bearded) (1152), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

  Episode 10 · 14:43
• Frederick of the Red Beard and the Pope (1177), from the old chronicles

  Episode 11 · 11:02
• Frederick Barbarossa at the feet of the Pope, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 48

  Episode 12 · 2:14
• Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert

  Episode 13 · 2:10
• Germany Part III: Stories of the Middle Ages: Historical note

  Episode 14 · 1:40
• How Siegfried won a bride for King Gunther, from the Nibelungenlied

  Episode 15 · 22:20
• Bishop Hatto and his mouse tower (about 968), by Robert Southey

  Episode 16 · 5:04
• The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine

  Episode 17 · 1:38
• The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann

  Episode 18 · 23:15
• Germany Part IV: Life in the fifteenth century: Historical note

  Episode 19 · 2:53
• The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan

  Episode 20 · 9:05
• The walled cities of Germany, by Sabine Baring-Gould, with the collaboration of Arthur Gilman

  Episode 21 · 8:35
• German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen

  Episode 22 · 14:11
• The contest of the master-singers, by August Hagen

  Episode 23 · 23:26
• John Gutenberg, inventor of printing (middle of the sixteenth century), by Eva March Tappan

  Episode 24 · 6:30
• Germany Part V: From the Reformation to the death of Frederick the Great: Historical note

  Episode 25 · 3:27
• Martin Luther as a boy (about 1500), by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Charles

  Episode 26 · 19:34
• The sacking of Magdeburg (1631), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

  Episode 27 · 12:59
• The giant regiment of Frederick William I of Prussia (between 1713 and 1740), by Thomas Carlyle

  Episode 28 · 11:39
• The childhood of Frederick the Great (about 1720), by Thomas Carlyle

  Episode 29 · 18:13
• Frederick the Great and the First Silesian War (1740-1745), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Episode 30 · 25:00
• The round table of Frederick the Great at Sans Souci, by Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel (Germany, 1815-1905), painting p. 178

  Episode 31 · 2:54
• Germany Part VI: German authors and composers: Historical note

  Episode 32 · 2:19
• Stories from the eighteenth century, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Episode 33 · 12:45
• Morning prayers in the Bach family, by Toby Edward Rosenthal (American painter, 1848), painting p. 190

  Episode 34 · 2:20
• Handel, the master of Oratorio (1685-1759), by L. B. Urbino

  Episode 35 · 11:06
• The unwritten overture of Mozart (1756-1791), by Heribert Rau

  Episode 36 · 17:36
• A visit to Beethoven (1770-1827), by Richard Wagner

  Episode 37 · 23:45
• Germany Part VII: Two wars with France: Historical note

  Episode 38 · 2:30
• The oath at the grave of Frederick the Great (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt)

  Episode 39 · 10:38
• Why the philosopher's letter was not mailed (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt)

  Episode 40 · 9:58
• The Queen of Prussia's ride (1806), by A. L. A. Smith

  Episode 41 · 2:38
• William of Prussia proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles, by Anton von Werner (Germany, 1843), painting p. 236

  Episode 42 · 2:33
• The troubles of a correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War (1870), from "All the Year Round"

  Episode 43 · 18:33
• German wounded in the Gallery of Mirrors, Versailles, by Victor Bachereau-Reverchon (French artist, 1842), painting p. 248

  Episode 44 · 3:15
• The watch on the Rhine, by Max Schneckenburger

  Episode 45 · 3:17
• Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note

  Episode 46 · 1:54
• Bismarck in the Reichstag and at home (about 1880), by George Makepeace Towle

  Episode 47 · 19:54
• Student life at the German universities (about 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

  Episode 48 · 10:40
• A day with the German Emperor (1898), by Maurice Leudet

  Episode 49 · 12:25
• The German Fatherland, by Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Episode 50 · 3:38
• The Netherlands Part I: From the Roman conquest to the Reformation: Historical note

  Episode 51 · 2:39
• Besieging a Roman camp (54 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes

  Episode 52 · 14:31
• The rebellion of Civilis (69 A.D.), by Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  Episode 53 · 7:53
• How Count William of Holland was made a knight (1247), from the old chronicles

  Episode 54 · 5:54
• How Philip van Artevelde was made Governor of Ghent (1386), by Sir John Froissart

  Episode 55 · 8:44
• The childhood of Charles V: a reading by Erasmus, by Eduard Jean Conrad Hamman (Belgian painter, 1819), painting p. 302

  Episode 56 · 3:03
• The Netherlands Part II: How Holland won her freedom: Historical note

  Episode 57 · 3:22
• The ''beggars'' of Holland (1566), by John Lothrop Motley

  Episode 58 · 19:28
• The siege of Leyden (1574), by John Lothrop Motley

  Episode 59 · 22:15
• The assassination of William the Silent (1584), by John Lothrop Motley

  Episode 60 · 19:46
• Sir Philip Sidney and the glass of water (1586), by John Lothrop Motley

  Episode 61 · 5:06
• How a turf-boat captured the city of Breda (1590), by G. T. Hoare

  Episode 62 · 9:24
• The Netherlands Part III: The period of commercial greatness: Historical note

  Episode 63 · 2:48
• How a mud-hole became a garden, by William Elliot Griffis

  Episode 64 · 17:11
• When the pilgrim fathers went to Holland (1608), by William Bradford

  Episode 65 · 16:18
• The surrender of Breda, by Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660), painting p. 368

  Episode 66 · 2:29
• The escape of Hugo de Groot (1621), by Frederick Spencer Bird

  Episode 67 · 18:08
• The return of Spinoza (about 1653), by Israel Zangwill

  Episode 68 · 10:26
• The rival tulip-growers (1672), by Alexandre Dumas

  Episode 69 · 18:21
• When William III of England came home to his fatherland (1691), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Episode 70 · 15:29
• The Netherlands Part IV: Little stories of Netherland artists: Historical note

  Episode 71 · 2:03
• King Philip presenting Rubens to Velasquez, by Leon y Escosura (Spanish artist, 1834-1901), painting p. 406

  Episode 72 · 2:03
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), by Theodore Child

  Episode 73 · 5:51
• Anton Vandyck (1599-1641), by Clara Erskine Clement

  Episode 74 · 8:58
• Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'', by Théophile Gautier

  Episode 75 · 8:57
• The Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Ryn (born at Leyden, 1607. Died in 1669), painting p. 414

  Episode 76 · 2:24
• Rembrandt in his studio, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 416

  Episode 77 · 2:18
• The Netherlands Part V: The Netherlands in recent years: Historical note

  Episode 78 · 2:45
• The American Revolution in Holland, by Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Episode 79 · 20:12
• Contrary land, by Mary Mapes Dodge

  Episode 80 · 15:12
• The festival of Saint Nicholas, by Mary Mapes Dodge

  Episode 81 · 19:06
• In and out of a cab in Amsterdam, by F. Hopkinson Smith

  Episode 82 · 13:10
• The beloved Queen Wilhelmina (born in 1880), by William Elliot Griffis

  Episode 83 · 12:31
• Switzerland Part I: In earliest times: Historical note

  Episode 84 · 1:47
• The siege of the Lake-Dwellers, by Sir Arthur Helps

  Episode 85 · 6:48
• The flight of the Helvetians (58 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan

  Episode 86 · 7:52
• The Devil's Bridge over the Reuss, by H. A. Guerber

  Episode 87 · 7:09
• Switzerland Part II: How the Swiss gained their freedom: Historical note

  Episode 88 · 2:22
• The meeting at the Rütli (1307), by Heinrich Zschokke

  Episode 89 · 6:19
• The shot of William Tell (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

  Episode 90 · 22:32
• Tell's escape (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

  Episode 91 · 4:28
• Song of the Battle of Morgarten (1315), by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

  Episode 92 · 5:01
• The death of Winkelried (1386), by Walter Thornbury

  Episode 93 · 5:43
• Switzerland Part III: Stories from Swiss history: Historical note

  Episode 94 · 2:37
• The Baron of Raron and the ''Mazze'' (fifteenth century), by J. Wilson

  Episode 95 · 3:30
• Peace or war ? (1474), by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 96 · 24:27
• How the Swiss met Charles the Bold of Burgundy (1476) by Heinrich Zschokke

  Episode 97 · 9:01
• The milk porridge incident: a story of the Reformation, by Clarence Rook

  Episode 98 · 4:54
• The prison of Chillon, by Jacob Abbott

  Episode 99 · 12:03
• The lion at Luzern, by Boyd Winchester

  Episode 100 · 4:19
• Switzerland Part IV: Stories of Alpine adventure: Historical note

  Episode 101 · 2:56
• Swept down by an avalanche, by Heinrich Zschokke

  Episode 102 · 9:44
• The slide of Alpnach, by L. A. Gilbert

  Episode 103 · 8:35
• The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper

  Episode 104 · 12:05
• Tobogganing on a glacier, by John Addington Symonds

  Episode 105 · 10:17
• Switzerland Part V: Life in the mountains: Historical note

  Episode 106 · 1:57
• Our borrowed scientists, by W. D. McCrackan

  Episode 107 · 6:05
• The tiny farms of Switzerland, by Boyd Winchester

  Episode 108 · 6:17
• How Switzerland defends herself, by Clarence Rook

  Episode 109 · 13:51
• How the Swiss built the greatest tunnel in the world, by Francis Fox

  Episode 110 · 8:38