Excerpt from Gustavus Adolphus in Germany and Other Lectures on the Thirty Years War Very much has been done to throw light on the history of the Thirty Years' War, since the time when Schiller published what is still the main source of information about it for the ordinary reader (1790 and whenever Mr. Motley addresses himself to this closing por tion of that immense task which he has undcr taken - and he has announced his intention of carrying on his work to the end of this War - he will find a vast amount of material collected and partially wrought uptohis hand. This, however, from all reports, is little to that which is still waiting its time in the archives of Vienna, of Berlin, of Dresden, of Prague, of Stockholm, and above all, of Simncas, not to speak of 'vveimar and Cassel and other of the smaller capitals of Gamay, Within the last few years new Lines of almost, all the chief actors in. The War have been published; as of Gustavus Adolphus, use of Swedish materials, unused, as he states, by preceding historians of Wallenstein, by Ranke (1869) of Tilly, by Klopp (1861) of Bernard of Saxe Weimar, by Rose (1829) of the Emperor Ferdinand the Second, by Hurter (1850 of Ferdinand the Third, by Koch of Amalia of Hesse Cassel, by Rommel (18 Gindely, well known for his researches in Bohemian history, has undertaken to tell the whole story of the War in good part from sources hitherto unexplored but has fallen into the mistake which few who have the first access to new materials escape; lingering so long over the Bohemian troubles that it is difficult to say to what length the book, if ever completed, may extend, the first volume bringing us but a little way beyond the Fenster sturz.' The part which Brandenburg played in the struggle was very small: but Prussia as it now is makes interesting the most inglorious periods of its past history and all which any can want to know of its dismal share in the business is excellently told us by J. G. Droysen, Gem'zz'c/zte a'. Premsz'sc/zen Palitz'k. In 1856 - 59; a large portion of Chemnitz's semi-official Swedish ac count of the War, which had hitherto remained in manuscript, was published at Stockholm, reaching from May 1641 to June 1646, this the more valuable as a great fire in Stockholm (1697) had destroyed many of the original documents.068. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.