PEASANT WEDDING PROCESSION 65 SCENE OF MONASTIC LIFE 78 THUSNELDA IN THE GERMANICUS TRIUMPH 94 THE AMPHITHEATRE AT MILAN 109 STATUE OF WILLIAM TELL 153 THE CASTLE OF PRAGUE 175 STATUE OF ARNOLD WINKELRIED 193 STATUE OF LUTHER AT WORMS 225 THE MOSQUE OF SOLYMAN, CONSTANTINOPLE 236 OLD HOUSES AT MUeNSTER 246 WALLENSTEIN 252 THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN VIENNA 278 STATUE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT, UNTER DEN LINDEN, BERLIN 289 SANS SOUCI, PALACE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT 315 THE LAST DAY OF ANDREAS HOFER 340 A GERMAN MILK WAGON 347 [Illustration: MAXIMILIAN RECEIVING VENETIAN DELEGATION.] _HERMANN, THE HERO OF GERMANY._ In the days of Augustus, the emperor of Rome in its golden age of prosperity, an earnest effort was made to subdue and civilize barbarian Germany. Drusus, the step-son of the emperor, led the first army of invasion into this forest-clad land of the north, penetrating deeply into the country and building numerous forts to guard his conquests. His last invasion took him as far as the Elbe. Here, as we are told, he found himself confronted by a supernatural figure, in the form of a woman, who waved him back with lofty and threatening air, saying, "How much farther wilt thou advance, insatiable Drusus? It is not thy lot to behold all these countries. Depart hence! the term of thy deeds and of thy life is at hand." Drusus retreated, and died on his return. Tiberius, his brother, succeeded him, and went far to complete the conquest he had begun. Germany seemed destined to become a Roman province. The work of conquest was followed by efforts to civilize the free-spirited barbarians, which, had they been conducted wisely, might have led to success. One of the Roman governors, Sentius, prefect of the Rhine, treated the people so humanely that many of them adopted the arts and customs of Rome, and the work of overcoming their barbarism was well begun. He was succeeded in this office by Varus, a friend and confidant of the emperor, but a man of very different character, and one who not only lacked military experience and mental ability, but utterly misunderstood the character of the people he was dealing with. They might be led, they could not be driven into civilization, as the new prefect was to learn.