Identifier: worldsstoryhisto07tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Breda. This town had been taken in 1590 by the stratagem of the turf boat, and now, in 1625, was forced to surrender to Spain. The illustration is a reproduction of one of the most famous of historical paintings. It is often called The Lances, because of the wilderness of lances at theright. It pictures the moment when the Dutch commanderis presenting Spinola with the keys of the surrendered city. He bows submissively before the victorious foe; but Spinola, instead of grasping the keys, lays his hand in friendly wise upon the shoulder of his brave opponent. The figures in the picture are not at all numerous, but yet the idea of a large number of people is given by the masses of troops indicated in the middle distance. Behind Spinola are the Spanish troops with their lances. The background is a wide stretch of flat country, bounded by the distant ocean. Here and there are fortifications. Near the head of the Spanish generals horse stands a man wearing a plumed hat. This represents the artist himself.
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THE ESCAPE OF HUGO DE GROOT (1621) BY FREDERICK SPENCER BIRD One of the greatest names in Holland, in connection with the literature of his time, is that of Hugo de Groot, or Grotius, as he is commonly called. When a mere youth he is said to have successfully maintained theses in philosophy, mathematics, and jurisprudence. He has left behind him several volumes of Latin poems, theo-logical works, and a standard treatise on international law called De Jure Belli et Pacis. The story of his escape from the Castle of Loevestein, where he was sentenced to be imprisoned for life, for the part he took in the political and theological disputes which agitated his native country, is well worth recording. In so far that his devoted wife devised and helped to carry out the plan for regaining his freedom, the anecdote reminds one of the Earl of Nithsdales escape from the Tower of London, in 1715, which was effected by the aid of his countess. A Dutch Life of Grotius gives the full particulars, from which I have se

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