The World’s Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art Volume 18 Austria-Hungary The Balkan States Turkey Edited by Eva March Tappan
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CONTENTS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY I. FROM THE TARTAR IKVASION TO THE REFORMATION THE Cm,UNG OF THE TARTARS
Louis Felberma,m
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How RuooLF THE FIRST BECAME EMPEROR
Jolzn S.
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From "Hungary and its People." From "The Empire of Austria."
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Abbott
STORIES OF RUDOLF, FommER OF THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG
William Coxe
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E. II. Gillett
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From tlze Old Chronicles From "Legends and Tales of Old :\fonich."
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From "Rhodolph of Hapsburgh."
THE DELIVERANCE OF l'RAGUE
From "The Life and Times of John Huss."
A FUNERA L MENU, OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
II. THE RELIGIOUS WARS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
/Jfarie
llay
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Jolza11n Ckrislop/i Friedrich von Schiller F rom "History of the Thirty Years' \Var."
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Johann Clzristoplz Friedrich von Schiller From "The Death of Wallenstein."
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THE DEVASTATION OF ST. VITUS'S CHURCH
From "The Winter Queen.'' WALLENSTEIN, THE DEPOSED GENERAL
\\'ALLENSTEIN AND THE CUIRASSIERS
How JOHN SOBIESKI SAVED VIENNA FROM THE TURKS
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III. FRO:\l MARIA THERESA
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THE D OWNFALL OF
NAPOLEON How MARIA THERESA OF AUSTRIA BECAME KING
Jolin S. C. Abbolt John S. C. Abbott
THE COMMAND OF MARIA THERESA
From "The Empire of Austria."
Thomas Campbell John S. C. Abbott From "The History of Napoleon Bonaparte.''
HOHENLINDEN • • • • • ThE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ
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"Louisa Miihlbach" (Klara M. Mundt) 93 From" Louisa of Prussia and her Times."
CONTENTS IV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AFTER THE BATTLE OF SzOLNOK . THE UNLUCKY WEATHERCOCK •
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• Louis Kos suth
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. Bayard Ta ylor
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THE SALT MINES OF WIELICZKA
From "Travels in Greece and Russia."
V. STORIES AND POEMS OF B OHEMIA, HUNGARY, AND THE TYROL THE DoG AND THE WOLF •
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From "In the Land of Marvels," retold by Theodor Vernaleken
THE POOR MAN AND THE KING OF THE CROWS.
A Magyar folk-ta le From "Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars," retold by Jeremiah Curtin.
ST. Ki.iMMERNISS
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A legend of the Tyrol 154
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How the Gypsies saved the Archduke W. B. Forster-Bovill The Gypsy Bands . . . . . . . W. B. Forster-Bovill From "Hungary and the Hungarians." Gypsy Music . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Fletcher From "Sketches of Life and Character in Hungary.''
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Two MAGYAR POEMS.
The National Song of Hungary . . . . Alexander Petofi 168 The Pilgrim . . . . . . . . . . . . JohnGa ra y 170 From "Magyar Poetry," translated by William N.Loew.
THE BALKAN STATES An old Servi an ballad 175
MARKO AND THE TURKS
From "Servian Popular Poetry," translated by John Bowring.
l\foNTENEGRO • • • • • • . . AN ATTACK ON TIIE IlAsm-BA ZOUKS
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson 180 Arthur D. Ilowden Smith 181
THE SIEGE OF ADRI ANOPLE
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From "The Balkan War. With the Army of the Cross.''
THE FLIGHT FROM LULE-BURGAS
From "The Balkan War. With the Army of the Crescent.'' 11
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CONTENTS TURKEY I. TO THE CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE
&lward Gibbon 217 From "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." TrrE CmJING OF TIIE COMET . . . . . . . Maurus 16kai 222 From "Tamerlane the Tartar." IJcnry Wadsworth Longfellow 235 SCANDERDEG . . • . . . . TIIE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE . . . . . Edward Gibbon 242 From "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
CONSTANTINOPLE, A CITY DUILT TO ORDER .
II. TURKEY AT THE HEIGHT OF HER POWER
Anonymous James M. Ludlow
THE TRIBUTE OF CHILDREN THE °LITTLE JANIZARY
From "The Captain of the Janizaries." Alphonse lllarie Louis de Lamartine From "History of Turkey."
THE SURRENDER OF RHODES
253 257 266
A VISIT TO THE WIFE OF SOLYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
Translated from a Gmoese letter From "The Sultan and his Subjects," by Richard Davey. DINING WITH THE SULTANA • • Lady lllary Wortley Montagu From "Letters and Works of Lady l\!ary Wortley l\Iontagu."
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"THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE"
TIIE LAST OF TIIE J ANIZARIES "TIIE HOUSE OF FEAR ". TrrE SILENT ARMY • .
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Maurus J6kai
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Francis McCullaglz Francis McCullagh
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From "The Lion of Janina."
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IV. TURKISH STORIES "TIIE LAllB BOLTED."
A legend of Turkishjustice.
STORIES OF NASR-EDDIN ROJA. A TuRKISII FRIENDSIIIP . . .
From "Among the Turks."
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V. STORIES OF TURKISH LIFE AND CUSTOMS THE FIRST TELEGRAPH IN TURKEY.
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J.
William
Whittall
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CONTENTS Lucy JI. J. Garnett 331
CHOOSING A WIFE FOR THE SON
From "Turkish Life."
. Cyrus Hamlin, D.D. 333
"PROTESTANT BREAD"
From "Among the Turks."
Julia Pardoe 339
THE DANCl�G DERVISHES
From "The City of the Sultan."
Demetra JIaka 345
A TURKISH "WHAT FOR?".
From "Haremlik."
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