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few, however, especially in
the earlier scenes, seemed capable of improvement, and these have
been revised, but, in deference to the translator, with a sparing hand.
THE MAID OF ORLEANS is contributed by Miss Anna Swanwick,
whose translation of Faust has since become well known. It has been.
carefully revised, and is now, for the first time, published complete.
THE BRIDE OF MESSINA, which has been regarded as the poetical
masterpiece of Schiller, and, perhaps of all his works, presents the
greatest difficulties to the translator, is rendered by A. Lodge, Esq., M.
A. This version, on its first publication in England, a few years ago,
was received with deserved eulogy by distinguished critics. To the
present edition has been prefixed Schiller's Essay on the Use of the
Chorus in Tragedy, in which the author's favorite theory of the "Ideal of
Art" is enforced with great ingenuity and eloquence.

Contents:

Book I.
Introduction.--General effects of the Reformation.--Revolt of Matthias.
--The Emperor cedes Austria and Hungary to him.--Matthias
acknowledged King of Bohemia.--The Elector of Cologne abjures the
Catholic Religion. --Consequences.--The Elector Palatine.--Dispute
respecting the Succession of Juliers.--Designs of Henry IV. of
France.--Formation of the Union.--The League.--Death of the Emperor
Rodolph.--Matthias succeeds him.--Troubles in Bohemia.--Civil
War.--Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria.--The
Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bohemians.--He
accepts the Crown of Bohemia.-- Bethlen Gabor, Prince of
Transylvania, invades Austria.--The Duke of Bavaria and the Princes of
the League embrace the cause of Ferdinand.-- The Union arm for
Frederick.--The Battle of Prague and total subjection of Bohemia.
Book II.
State of the Empire.--Of Europe.--Mansfeld.--Christian, Duke of
Brunswick.--Wallenstein raises an Imperial Army at his own expense.
--The King of Denmark defeated.--Death of Mansfeld.--Edict of
Restitution in 1628.--Diet at Ratisbon.--Negociations.--Wallenstein
deprived of the Command.--Gustavus Adolphus.--Swedish
Army.--Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at
Stockholm.--Invasion by the Swedes.--Their progress in
Germany.--Count Tilly takes the Command of the Imperial
Troops.--Treaty with France.--Congress at Leipzig.--Siege and cruel
fate of Magdeburg.--Firmness of the Landgrave of Cassel.-- Junction of
the Saxons with the Swedes.--Battle of Leipzig.-- Consequences of that
Victory.
Book III.
Situation of Gustavus Adolphus after the Battle of Leipzig.--Progress
of Gustavus Adolphus.--The French invade Lorraine.--Frankfort
taken.-- Capitulation of Mentz.--Tilly ordered by Maximilian to protect

Bavaria. --Gustavus Adolphus passes the Lech.--Defeat and Death of
Tilly.-- Gustavus takes Munich.--The Saxon Army invades Bohemia,
and takes Prague.--Distress of the Emperor.--Secret Triumph of
Wallenstein.-- He offers to Join Gustavus Adolphus.--Wallenstein
re-assumes the Command.--Junction of Wallenstein with the
Bavarians.--Gustavus Adolphus defends Nuremberg.--Attacks
Wallenstein's Intrenchments.--Enters Saxony.--Goes to the succour of
the Elector of Saxony.--Marches against Wallenstein.--Battle of
Lutzen.--Death of Gustavus Adolphus.--Situation of Germany after the
Battle of Lutzen.
Book IV.
Closer Alliance between France and Sweden.--Oxenstiern takes the
Direction of Affairs.--Death of the Elector Palatine.--Revolt of the
Swedish Officers.--Duke Bernhard takes Ratisbon.--Wallenstein enters
Silesia.--Forms Treasonable Designs.--Forsaken by the Army.--Retires
to Egra.--His associates put to death.--Wallenstein's death.--His
Character.
Book V.
Battle of Nordlingen.--France enters into an Alliance against Austria.--
Treaty of Prague.--Saxony joins the Emperor.--Battle of Wistock
gained by the Swedes.--Battle of Rheinfeld gained by Bernhard, Duke
of Weimar. --He takes Brisach.--His death.--Death of Ferdinand
II.--Ferdinand III. succeeds him.--Celebrated Retreat of Banner in
Pomerania.--His Successes.--Death.--Torstensohn takes the
Command.--Death of Richelieu and Louis XIII.--Swedish Victory at
Jankowitz.--French defeated at Freyburg.--Battle of Nordlingen gained
by Turenne and Conde.--Wrangel takes the Command of the Swedish
Army.--Melander made Commander of the Emperor's Army.--The
Elector of Bavaria breaks the Armistice.--He adopts the same Policy
towards the Emperor as France towards the Swedes.--The Weimerian
Cavalry go over to the Swedes.--Conquest of New Prague by
Koenigsmark, and Termination of the Thirty Years' War.

HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR IN GERMANY.

BOOK I.
From the beginning of the religious wars in Germany, to the peace of
Munster, scarcely any thing great or remarkable occurred in the
political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an
important share. All the events of this period, if they did not originate
in, soon became mixed up with, the question of religion, and no state
was either too great or too little to feel directly or indirectly more or
less of its influence.
Against the reformed doctrine and its adherents, the House of Austria
directed, almost exclusively, the whole of its immense political power.
In France, the Reformation had enkindled a civil war which, under four
stormy reigns, shook the kingdom to its foundations, brought foreign
armies into the heart of the country, and for half a century rendered it
the scene of the most mournful disorders. It was the Reformation, too,
that rendered the Spanish yoke intolerable to the Flemings, and
awakened in them both the desire and the courage to throw off its
fetters, while it also principally furnished them with the means of their
emancipation. And as to England, all the evils with which Philip the