--Burgundians, Alemanni, Ostrogoths and Huns. North Switzerland
became the permanent home of Alemanni, or Germans, whose descendants
still survive there, around Zuerich. Burgundians settled in the western
part which still remains French in speech, and a part of it French
politically, including Chamouni and half of Mont Blanc. Ostrogoths
founded homes in the southern parts, and descendants of theirs still
remain there, speaking Italian, or a sort of surviving Latin called
Romansch.

After these immigrations most parts of the country were subdued by the
Merovingian Franks, by whom Christianity was introduced and monasteries
founded. With the break-up of Charlemagne's empire, a part of
Switzerland was added to a German duchy, and another part to Burgundy.
Its later history is a long and moving record of grim struggles by a
brave and valiant people. In our day the Swiss have become industrially
one of the world's successful races, and their country the one in which
wealth is probably more equally distributed than anywhere else in
Europe, if not in America.

F.W.H.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME V

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland--Part One

I. THE RHINE VALLEY

INTRODUCTION TO VOLS. V AND VI--By the Editor

IN HISTORY AND ROMANCE--By Victor Hugo

FROM BONN TO MAYENCE--By Bayard Taylor

COLOGNE--By Victor Hugo

ROUND ABOUT COBLENZ--By Lady Blanche Murphy

BINGEN AND MAYENCE--By Victor Hugo

FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN--By Bayard Taylor

HEIDELBERG--By Bayard Taylor

STRASBURG--By Harriet Beecher Stowe

FREIBURG AND THE BLACK FOREST--By Bayard Taylor

II. NUREMBERG

AS A MEDIEVAL CITY--By Cecil Headlam

ITS CHURCHES AND THE CITADEL--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin

NUREMBERG TO-DAY--By Cecil Headlarn

WALLS AND OTHER FORTIFICATIONS--By Cecil Headlam

ALBERT DUERER--By Cecil Headlam

III. OTHER BAVARIAN CITIES

MUNICH--By Bayard Taylor

AUGSBURG--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin

RATISBON--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin

IV. BERLIN AND ELSEWHERE

A LOOK AT THE GERMAN CAPITAL--By Theophile Gautier

CHARLOTTENBURG--By Harriet Beecher Stowe

LEIPZIG AND DRESDEN--By Bayard Taylor

WEIMAR IN GOETHE'S DAY--By Madame De Stael

ULM--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin

AIX-LA-CHAPELLE AND CHARLEMAGNE'S TOMB--By Victor Hugo

THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE--By James Howell

HAMBURG--By Theophile Gautier

SCHLESWIG--By Theophile Gautier

LUEBECK--By Theophile Gautier

HELIGOLAND--By William George Black

V. VIENNA