The present and last of this series of readings in German history
includes an outline of the historical changes and great events of the
period of nearly four hundred years since the Reformation. Though
condensed to a very great degree, it furnishes the reader a survey of
that important period, and will afford him a helpful basis for his future
study of the history of Germany. The reading closes with a selection from
the pen of the poet and historian, Schiller, descriptive of the battle of
Lutzen, where Gustavus Adolphus, that greatest character and hero of the
Thirty Years’ War, met his fate.