Stories for Children Stories of William Tell and His Friends Told to the Children by Henrietta Marshall. Beacon Reader (1932). Heroes Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Doubleday, 1907). Legends of Switzerland Poetry William Tell by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) William Tell by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) These verses accompanied a copy of his play.Continue reading “William Tell”
Monthly Archives: June 2021
Swiss Geography – Fribourg
Map Gruyère Ranz des Vaches Read in French of the “Origine du Ranz des Vaches.” Read the song in full, in Patois and French, and listen to it here. Morat (Murten) The Battle of Murten by Veit Weber (d. 1483) Veit Weber was assumed as a pseudonym for an 18th to 19th-century author, Leonhard Wächter, butContinue reading “Swiss Geography – Fribourg”
Longfellow’s Poems of Places – Turkey
Map XIX: Greece and Turkey in Europe (The scanning of the section with poems about Turkey is unusable, so for most of the poems in this volume, the link will be to Bartleby.com.) XXII: Asia: Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Turkestan, Afghanistan I will here include only poems about modern Turkey, not those from or aboutContinue reading “Longfellow’s Poems of Places – Turkey”
Nihil sub sole novum 