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CONTENTS

VOLUME EIGHT

A.D. 1899-1906

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THE PEACE CONFERENCE (A.D. 1899). Eleonore d'Esterre-Keeling 2371

THE BATTLE OF ELANDSLAAgte (a.d. 1899). G. W. Steevens

TELEGRAPHY WITHOUT WIRES. Silvanus P. Thompson

THE BOXER MOVEMENT (A.D. 1900). Sir Robert Hart.

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT MCKINLEY (A.D. 1901), Wemyss

Reid

2380

2390

2398

2413

THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. PIERRE (A.D. 1902). Robert T. Hill.

THE AUTOMOBILE (A.D. 1902). Robert Crawford

THE CORONATION OF ALFONSO XIII. (A.D. 1902). Richard Hard-

ing Davis

2420

THE CORONATION OF KING EDWARD VII. (A.D. 1902). Sir Gil-

bert Parker

2445

THE NILE DAM AT ASSOUAN (A.D. 1902). Frank Fayant .

MASSACRE OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA (A.D. 1903).. Arnold White

A GLORIOUS REVOLUTION IN SERVIA (A.D. 1903). Herbert Vivian

LEO XIII. A RETROSPECT (A.D. 1903). William Barry

THE NEW PONTIFICATE (A.D. 1903). J. Moyes .

THE SECESSION OF PANAMA AND THE PANAMA CANAL (A.D. 1903).

RADIUM AND ITS LESSONS (A.D. 1904). Sir Oliver Lodge.

INTO TIBET (A.D. 1904). Colonel H. C. Wylly.

THE ORENBURG-TASHKENT RAILWAY (A.D. 1904). Angus

THE DOGGER BANK AND AFTER (A.D. 1904). L. C. Carr Laughton 2556

THE CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE (A.D. 1904). Captain

Roald Amundsen

2563.

THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR (A.D. 1905). E. St. G. Holbrook. 2579

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THE SIMPLON TUNNEL (A.D. 1905). H. G. Archer.

BATTLE OF MUKDEN (A.D. 1905). E. St. G. Holbrook .

BATTLE OF THE SEA OF JAPAN (A.D. 1905). Archibald S. Hurd.

THE SEPARATION OF NORWAY AND SWEDEN (A.D. 1905). Henry

Seton Karr

PEACEMAKING AT PORTSMOUTH (A.D. 1905).

THE VICTORIA FALLS BRIDGE (A.D. 1905).

Hobson

J. C. O'Laughlin

George Andrew

Richard Heath.

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2590

2601

2612

2619

2640

Richard Lloyd Jones

Budgett Meakin

2646

2659

2667

2676

THE GREAT DIVORCE IN FRANCE (A.D. 1905).

LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION (A.D. 1905).

THE ALGECIRAS CONFERENCE (A.D. 1906).

DREADNOUGHTS (A.D. 1906). Navalis .

THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS (A.D. 1906). Robert Haven Schauffler

THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER (A.D. 1906). Jack London .

WHY I REVIVED THE OLYMPIC GAMES (A.D. 1906). Pierre De

Coubertin

.

THE FIRST RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT (A.D. 1906). A. S. Rappoport
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF ALFONSO OF SPAIN (A.D. 1996).

HAAKON VII., KING OF NORWAY (A.D. 1906). Hrolf Wisby.

LIST OF

ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME EIGHT

THE FORTIFIED HEIGHTS OF PORT ARTHUR

Photogravure frontispiece

FOREIGN TROOPS ENTERING PEKING

During the Boxer Movement

THE ASSOUAN DAM

On the River Nile, Egypt

Two VIEWS OF THE PANAMA CANAL

Showing the Culebra Cut and the Three Locks at Gatun

VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION

From a photograph taken at the beginning of the eruption