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

Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note

How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus

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

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

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

Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note

How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann

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

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

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

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

Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert

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

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

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

The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine

The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann

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

The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan