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- Needlework in Germany
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- Torchlight Processions
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- A popular custom in Germany.
- What I Saw of the Amber Trade
(Leisure Hour, 1868)
- How amber is gathered and processed in Königsburg, Prussia.
- The Republican Movement in Europe: Germany, by Emilio Castelar
(Harper's Monthly, 1874)
- The Republican Movement in Europe: The Germanic Peoples, by Emilio Castelar
(Harper's Monthly, 1875A)
- The Republican Movement in Europe, by Emilio Castelar
(Harper's Monthly, 1875B)
- The Germanic Peoples, Part 2: Religious Ideas.
- German Polytechnic Schools
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)
- German Universities
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)
- The University of Berlin
(Scribners, 1879B)
- A Few German Cures (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1880)
- Visiting the "spa" was all the fashion in Europe, but one might hesitate to use the "roll-cure" or the "goat's whey cure"...
- Mother-of-Pearl Work, by Selina Gaye
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1880)
- A look at the pearl fisheries of Voigtland, Saxony.
- Ober-Ammergau and the Passion Play
(Demorest, 1880)
- The University of Leiden
(Harper's Monthly, 1881A)
- First Impressions of a German Girl in England, and Notes on Girl-Life in Germany
(Girl's Own Paper, 1882)
- Life in a German Country Parish
(Girl's Own Paper, 1882)
- Children of All Nations: Germany, by L. Lobenhofer
(Little Folks, 1883)
- The Passion Play at Oberammergau
(Century Magazine, 1883A)
- Girl-Life in Germany, by Emma Brewer
(Girl's Own Paper, 1884)
- Girl-Life in the Black Forest,
(Girl's Own Paper, 1885)
- Toydonia, or, The Land of Toys, by Emma Brewer
(Girl's Own Paper, 1885)
- Visits to toy factories throughout Europe, but primarily in Germany.
- At a German Wedding, by Wilhelm F. Brand
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)
- Student Life at Heidelberg, by Kingsley Spencer
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)
- Christmas in the German Fatherland
(Girl's Own Paper, 1887)
- A look at a traditional German Christmas Eve ceremony.
- A German Nuptial Eve
(Girl's Own Paper, 1887)
- Lace-Making in the Erzegebirge, by Emma Brewer
(Girl's Own Paper, 1887)
- How I Spent Christmas in the Fatherland (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1888)
- A look at Victorian-era Christmas customs in Germany.
- The Wonder Ball (Ingalls' Home Magazine, 1889)
- A German Christmas custom, in which small gifts are embedded in a ball of yarn - as one unwraps the ball, the gifts are revealed one by one.
- German Girlhood, by Lady Blennerhassett
(English Illustrated Magazine, 1890A)
- A more historic (and poetic) look at the lives of German girls, and the limited opportunities available to them.
- German Women: Their Infancy, Girlhood and Married Life, by the Countess A. Von Bothmer
(Girl's Own Paper, 1890)
- Hamburg Market-Women
(Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure, ca. 1890)
- Potters in Rhineland, by William Woodall, MP
(English Illustrated Magazine, 1890A)
- The Court Theatre of Meiningen, by Charles Waldstein
(Harper's Monthly, 1891A)
- Female Education in Germany, by Countess v. Krockow
(Century Magazine, 1891B)
- The German Army of Today, by LTC Exner
(Harper's Monthly, 1892A)
- Life Among German Tramps, by Josiah Flynt
(Century Magazine, 1893B)
- Hamburg's New Sanitary Impulse, by Albert Shaw
(Atlantic Monthly, 1894)
- A German Comic Paper (Fliegende Blatter), by William D. Ellwanger and Charles Mulford Robinson
(Century Magazine, 1894B)
- The Government of German Cities, by Albert Shaw
(Century Magazine, 1894B)
- School Excursions in Germany, by J.M. Rice
(Century Magazine, 1894B)
- "The principal purpose of instructive excursions, as conducted by the schools of Germany, is to lead the child, by guided observation, to acquire a broad knowledge of his environment. Indeed, the study of the home surroundings of the child is recognized in the German schools as a special branch of knowledge, and it is included in the curriculum for the first three school-years under the name of Heimathskunde (home-ology)."
- Kaiserswerth and Its Founder, by Eleonora Kinnicutt
(Century Magazine, 1896A)
- Fliedner developed a plan whereby young women would find and care for the needy sick. For this, he needed to create Kaiserswerther Diakonie, an institute where women could learn both theology and nursing skills. He opened the hospital and deaconess training center in Kaiserswerth on 13 October 1836.
- The Passion-Play at Vorder-Thiersee, by Annie S. Peck
(Century Magazine, 1896A)
- A passion play in the Tyrolean Alps, supposedly older than the one at Oberammergau.
- Duelling in German Universities, by an English student
(The Strand, 1897A)
- The Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau, by F.W. Newland
(Girl's Own Paper, 1900)
- The Passion Play at Oberammergau, by A. de Burgh
(Windsor Magazine, 1900B)
- The German "Punch"
(Strand, 1901A)
- The Fliegende Blatter, a German paper of cartoons, satire and caricature, launched in 1844.
- Christmas in Old Germany, by Constance Hill (Sunday Strand, 1902)
- • See also Germany: Travel
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