ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS.
THE RHINE TO THE ARCTIC.
_A SUMMER TRIP OF THE ZIGZAG CLUB THROUGH HOLLAND, GERMANY, DENMARK, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN._
BY
HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH,
AUTHOR OF "YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF AMERICA," "YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF BOSTON," "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE," ETC.
_FULLY ILLUSTRATED._
BOSTON: ESTES AND LAURIAT, 301-305 WASHINGTON STREET. 1884.
_Copyright, 1883_, BY ESTES AND LAURIAT.
THE ZIGZAG SERIES.
BY
HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH,
OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE "YOUTH'S COMPANION," AND CONTRIBUTOR TO "ST. NICHOLAS" MAGAZINE.
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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.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; by Butterworth
- 2: Cologne 184 xii
- 3: Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; by Butterworth
- 4: Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; by Butterworth
- 5: With the Rome of Caesar and Aurelian
- 6: Illustration CASTLE IN RHINE LAND
- 7: This society was called the Zigzag Club
- 8: Hingham used to be famous for its ghost stories
- 9: Illustration I'VE SEEN DE DEBBLE
- 10: Grandmother golden's only ghost story
- 11: Jemmy Robbin was a poor old man
- 12: And wha and wha and wha mumbled the object
- 13: They hailed Macbeth as thane of Cawdor
- 14: As Shakspeare says Macbeth
- 15: Thus Birnam wood came against Dunsinane
- 16: Macbeth was naturally dissatisfied
- 17: She found the process of incubation
- 18: As he was approaching the old church in Teviotdale
- 19: Her husband was buried in Teviotdale churchyard
- 20: A splendid court had Athelstane
- 21: He made a bosom friend of Dunstan
- 22: The boy king Edred was in ill health
- 23: Edwy the Fair loved the girl queen
- 24: And gave her money to return to Edwy
- 25: Chancing to ride near Crofe Castle
- 26: And Ethelred lost his kingdom
- 27: Russia and Prussia combined against Napoleon
- 28: Illustration THE EMPEROR WILLIAM AND NAPOLEON III
- 29: Illustration KING WILLIAM'S HELMET
- 30: And followed the hag to her home
- 31: The beldam hurried hither and thither
- 32: Illustration JAMIE RUSHING TOWARDS HIS MOTHER
- 33: Then handsome Jamie married the lovely Mimi
- 34: Beneath the walls of Doffingen
- 35: And of the great Council that convened there in 1414
- 36: Constance has been called 'the city of Huss
- 37: Bismarck in the Franco German War
- 38: Hoffman had exquisite refinement of taste
- 39: Now a charcoal burner has much time for reflection
- 40: And the other was Michael the Dutchman
- 41: Illustration PETER IN THE FOREST
- 42: When the money in the pockets of Fat Hesekiel
- 43: Seven nights on the rhine basle
- 44: The Rhine turns toward the north at Basle
- 45: Von Moltke is a very interesting personage
- 46: The old lords of Windeck were very quarrelsome people
- 47: Illustration THE HEN AND THE TRENCH
- 48: Illustration STRASBURG CATHEDRAL
- 49: Clovis met the invaders near Cologne
- 50: The road from the palace to the baptistery
- 51: These were Baptiste Lacombe and Raoul Tegot
- 52: Wait until you hear Raoul Tegot
- 53: Still the respected organist of the church
- 54: They clambered up a rickety staircase
- 55: Young Tegot now seemed to master himself by a great effort
- 56: ' Illustration PALACE AT HEIDELBERG
- 57: Of which some are called Verbindungs
- 58: The career of Heine was exceptionably brilliant
- 59: Whom the people called Little Mook
- 60: She used to berate Little Mook for what he could not help
- 61: So Little Mook became the royal messenger
- 62: And I'll straightway go to college
- 63: Seven nights on the rhine worms
- 64: So he slew Reginn and himself possessed the treasure
- 65: Mayence is said to have arisen by magic
- 66: Rochus was the finest in the world
- 67: 'Bishop Hatto fearfully hastened away
- 68: ' Illustration THE LORELEI
- 69: It always led him towards the Lei
- 70: Justinus Kerner was born in Ludwigsburg
- 71: The fortress is Ehrenbreitstein
- 72: Was invited to reside at Weimar
- 73: The window is still shown in Leipsig
- 74: Among which is the Drachenfels
- 75: As the Dragon approached the victim
- 76: Wilhelmina embraced her tenderly
- 77: Illustration THE UNNERVED HUSSAR
- 78: Illustration CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE
- 79: There are steeples and steeples
- 80: The architect returned to Cologne
- 81: The names of the Magi were Gaspar
- 82: Charlemagne invaded their country
- 83: The Rhine was loved by Charlemagne
- 84: The story and legend of barbarossa
- 85: And the grand old monarch would return to the Rhine
- 86: Illustration CANAL IN HAMBURG
- 87: The French expression is seen on everything at Sans Souci
- 88: He seated himself at the harpsichord
- 89: While conducting his oratorio of Samson
- 90: But had only learned to articulate his own name
- 91: He directly shovelled the compost out again
- 92: The body was brought to Speyer
- 93: Of course the great establishment of Von Erlangen
- 94: I must go now to Monsieur Dayrolles
- 95: Otto stood like a statue until the last note died away
- 96: He lingered long near the belfries of the sweetest voices
- 97: If any man were to touch that stopple
- 98: The command that he should not touch the stopple
- 99: Awake the old runes on the zither
- 100: Lek had travelled much over Germany
- 101: He asks for hospitality until to morrow
- 102: Lek crossed himself and fell upon his knees
- 103: In those evil days lived one Frederic Wollin
- 104: Except that Wollin and the old priest
- 105: Was represented as again sleeping under a rosebush
- 106: Unless the Lord to guard us deign
- 107: 'tis the hunt of Luetzow the free and the bold
- 108: The boldest young men of Germany rushed to Luetzow
- 109: Koerner begged to accompany him
- 110: Franz Schubert was born at Himmelpfortgrand
- 111: When each had numbered more than fourscore years
- 112: Heller complained to the elector
- 113: We came to fair Lucerne at even
- 114: We turned towards the faded fane
- 115: Beal gave a short introductory talk on Copenhagen
- 116: We visited the Rosenborg Palace
- 117: Which has come to the Danish royal family
- 118: The king landed at Lyo with only a few attendants
- 119: Stockholm stands a splendid city
- 120: In 1630 Gustavus called a Diet in Stockholm
- 121: The Maelar Lake is margined with dark pines
- 122: So numerous are the inlets or fiords
- 123: Of the rocks of the Skagerrack
- 124: Of the rocks of the Skagerrack
- 125: Is not the Hudson the American Rhine
- 126: The Class approached Quebec at night
- 127: Fair terrace of the Western Rhine