Chapter I: Preface

This fifth volume of the Zigzag books, in which history is taught by a supposed tour of interesting places, might be called a German story-book.

It was the aim of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE" and "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN CLASSIC LANDS" to make history interesting by stories and pictures of places. It was the purpose of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE ORIENT" to explain the Eastern Question, and of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE OCCIDENT" to explain Homesteading in the West.

The purpose of this volume is the same as in "EUROPE" and "CLASSIC LANDS." A light narrative of travel takes the reader to the places most conspicuously associated with German history, tradition, literature, and art, and in a disconnected way gives a view of the most interesting events of those Northern countries that once constituted a great part of the empire of Charlemagne.

It is the aim of these books to stimulate a love of history, and to _suggest_ the best historical reading. To this end popular stories and pictures are freely used to adapt useful information to the tastes of the young. But in every page, story, and picture, right education and right influence are kept in view.

In this volume many German legends and fairy stories have been used, but they are so introduced and guarded as not to leave a wrong impression upon the minds of the young and immature.

H. B.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE RIVER OF STORY AND SONG 15

II. GHOST STORIES 21

III. A STORY-TELLING JOURNEY 40

IV. GERMAN STORIES 60

V. THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CLUB 76

VI. NIGHT SECOND 92

VII. EVENING THE THIRD 104

VIII. EVENING THE FOURTH 122

IX. FIFTH MEETING FOR RHINE STORIES 145

X. NIGHT THE SIXTH 165

XI. COLOGNE 184

XII. HAMBURG 206

XIII. THE BELLS OF THE RHINE 221

XIV. THE SONGS OF THE RHINE 253

XV. COPENHAGEN 277

XVI. NORWAY 288

XVII. THE GREATER RHINE 309

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Carrying Siegfried's Body _Frontispiece._

Introducing Christianity into the North 16

Castle in Rhine Land 17

Tower of Rüdesheim on the Rhine 19

Mountain Scenery in Southern Germany 23

"I've seen de Debble" 26

Cat and Rat 27

Grandmother Golden 29

The Frightened Irishman 30

Duncan Asleep 34

Witches 35

The Grand-Ducal Castle, Schwerin 41

Ancient German Houses 43

Ancient Religious Rites of the Peasants 45

Old Fortress on the Rhine 50

St. Dunstan and the Devil 53

The Murder of Edward 58

The Emperor William and Napoleon III 63

William before his Father 64

King William's Helmet 65

Jamie at the Strange-looking House 67

Mountain Scene in Germany 69

Jamie rushing towards his Mother 71

The Dwarf and the Goose 72

Eberhard 74

Bridge in the Via Mala 77

John Huss 79

Bismarck 81

Peter in the Forest 86

Peter and the Manikin 88

Peter surpassed the King of Dancers 89

Peter and the Giant 90

A Village in the Black Forest 93

Peasant's House in the Black Forest 95

Von Moltke 97

Fountain at Schaffhausen 99

The Old Woman's Directions 101

The Hen and the Trench 102

Strasburg Cathedral 103

Platform of Strasburg Cathedral 107

Thus didst thou to the Vase of Soissons 109

Street in Strasburg 111

Clovis 113

Monsieur Lacombe and the Organ 115

"Here is an Odd Treasure" 120

Palace at Heidelberg 123

German Student 126

Castle at Heidelberg 127

German Students 131

Entrance to Heidelberg Castle 135

Little Mook 137

Amputation 139

The Queer Old Lady who went to College 140

"And it told to her the Truth" 141

"Not very, very plain" 141

"They you straightway in invite" 141

"He of the Philosophie" 143

A Battle between Franks and Saxons 146

Luther's House 147

A tribe of Germans on an Expedition 149

The Murder of Siegfried 151

Mayence 153

Bishop Hatto and the Rats 155

View on the Rhine 158

The Lorelei 159

Herman's Eyes were fixed on the Rock 163

Ehrenbreitstein 166

Goethe's Promenade 167

Faust Signing 171

Faust and Mephistopheles 172

A Cleft in the Mountains 175

Voltaire 179

The Unnerved Hussar 182

Cathedral of Cologne 185

The Mysterious Architect 189

St. Martin's Church, Cologne 193

Charlemagne in the School of the Palace 197

Charlemagne inflicting Baptism upon the Saxons 201

The Germans on an Expedition 203

Canal in Hamburg 207

The Palace in Berlin 209

Grotto 211

Sans-Souci 213

Peter the Wild Boy 217

The Silent Castles 223

Hotel de Ville, Ghent 225

Bell-Tower, Ghent 228

Castle at Heidelberg 229

Breslau 233

Finishing the Bell 236

At the Inn 237

The Day of Execution 238

Above the Town 241

Old Peasant Costume 244

The Old City 245

Old Peasant Costume 247

Old Peasant Costumes 248

City Gate 249

The Neckar 250

An Old German Town 255

The Rhinefels 257

Mayence in the Olden Time 262

Beethoven's Home at Bonn 268

A City of the Rhine 271

The River of Song 274

The Palace of Rosenborg 278

View of Copenhagen 279

Palace of Fredericksborg 283

The King in the Bag 286

Gustavus Adolphus 289

Death of Gustavus and his Page 293

Cascade in Norway 297

Lazaretto 299

The Naero Fiord 300

Lake in Norway 303

The Coast 307

Niagara Falls 311

A New England in the West 315

Near Quebec 317

ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS.