Page 86. That their great imperial city stretched its hand through every clime. An old popular proverb of the town runs thus : Page 86. Sat the poet Melchior singing Kaiser Maximilian's praise. Melchior Pfinzing was one of the most celebrated German poets of the sixteenth century. The hero of his Teuerdank was the reigning emperor, Maximilian; and the poem was to the Germans of that day what the Orlando Furioso was to the Italians. Maximilian is mentioned before, in the Belfry of Bruges. See page 83. Page 87. In the church of sainted Sebald sleeps enshrined his holy dust. The tomb of Saint Sebald, in the church which bears his name, is one of the richest works of art in Nuremberg. It is of bronze, and was cast by Peter Vischer and his sons, who labored upon it thirteen years. It is adorned with nearly one hundred figures, among which those of the Twelve Apostles are conspicuous for size and beauty. Page 87. In the church of sainted Lawrence stands a pix of sculpture rare. This pix, or tabernacle for the vessels of the sacrament, is by the hand of Adam Kraft. It is an exquisite piece of sculpture in white stone, and rises to the height of sixty-four feet. It stands in the choir, whose richly painted windows cover it with varied colors. The Twelve Wise Masters was the title of the original corporation of the Mastersingers. Hans Sachs, the cobbler of Nuremberg, though not one of the original Twelve, was the most renowned of the Mastersingers, as well as the most voluminous. He flourished in the sixteenth century; and left behind him thirty-four folio volumes of manuscript, containing two hundred and eight plays, one thousand and seven hundred comic tales, and between four and five thousand lyric poems. Page 88. As in Adam Puschman's song. Adam Puschman, in his poem on the death of Hans Sachs, describes him as he appeared in a vision : "An old man, Gray and white and dove-like, Who had, in sooth, a great beard, And read in a fair, great book, Beautiful, with golden clasps." Page 115. Sir Humphrey Gilbert. "When the wind abated and the vessels were near enough, the Admiral was seen constantly sitting in the stern, with a book in his hand. On the 9th of September he was seen for the last time, and was heard by the people of the Hind to say, 'We are as near heaven by sea as by land.' In the following night, the lights of the ship suddenly disappeared. The people in the other vessel kept a good lookout for him during the remainder of the voyage. On the 22d of September they arrived, through much tempest and peril, at Falmouth. But nothing more was seen or heard of the Admiral."-Belknap's American Biography, I. 203. The words of St. Augustine are: "De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus."-Sermon III., De Ascensione. Page 125. And the Emperor but a Macho. Macho, in Spanish, signifies a mule. Golondrina is the feminine form of Golon drino, a swallow, and also a cant name for a deserter. Page 128. Oliver Basselin. Oliver Basselin, the Père joyeux du Vaudeville, flourished in the fifteenth century, and gave to his convivial songs the name of his native valleys, in which he sang them, Vaux-de-Vire. This name was afterward corrupted into the modern Vaudeville. Page 131. I remember the sea-fight far away. This was the engagement between the "Enterprise" and "Boxer," off the harbor of Portland, in which both captains were slain. They were buried side by side in the cemetery on Mountjoy. For Supplementary Reading and School Libraries Plan of the Series-Complete Poems, Complete Prose Selections, and Condensed Narratives, with Notes, for school use. Some historical novels condensed. Complete Story in the Author's Own Language. Standard Authors Only. Interesting selections. Each selection a literary whole. Alhambra (Irving), No. 4 *Last Days of Pompeii (Bulwer-Lytton), No. 38 *Ninety-Three (Hugo), No. 18 FOR PRIMARY GRADES Fairy Tales (For Second School Year), No. 39 Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss), No. 35 For 3d and 4th Years *Round the World in 80 Days (Verne), No. 34 For 5th and 6th Years For 5th and 6th Years For 6th and 7th Years For 6th and 7th Years For 6th and 7th Years For 5th Year For 5th Year For 7th and 8th Years For 6th Year For 5th Year FOR CRITICAL STUDY OF ENGLISH *Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (Longfellow), 47 *David Copperfield's Childhood (Dickens), No. 36. Enoch Arden and Other Poems (Tennyson), No. 6 Evangeline (Longfellow), No. 21 *Song of Hiawatha (Longfellow), No. 37 *Five Great Authors, No. 42 (Irving, Hawthorne, Scott, Dickens, Full Text Full Text Full Text Each Selection Complete Full Text Full Text Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (Byron,) No. II. *Poems of Knightly Adventure, No. 26 (Tennyson, Arnold, The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), No. 49 Each Selection Complete Complete Eight Complete Selections Each Selection Complete Full Text Full Text Full Text |