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diff --git a/15326.txt b/15326.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5223d90 --- /dev/null +++ b/15326.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1621 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On +In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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NO. 16 + + * * * * * + +There does not seem to be any prospect of a settlement of the Turkish +troubles. + +The various European powers have called the Sultan to account for the +massacres in Armenia, and laid out a system of reforms, which they think +should be made. + +But this is as far as they have got. + +"You may lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink." The +various powers of Europe are learning that this is a very true saying. + +They have decided upon the reforms that Turkey ought to make, but they are +as puzzled as they can be to know how they are going to make the Sultan +order these reforms. + +Germany, France, Italy, Austria, England, and Russia have been discussing +the matter for weeks. + +They have been saying among themselves, "What on earth are we going to do +if Turkey flatly refuses to make any reforms at all?" + +This is the European conundrum. + +The consequence is, that the full list of reforms has not yet been given +to the Sultan. + +All the powers are feeling that it is of no use to tell him what they +insist shall be done, until these same powers have made up their minds +what they are going to do, if he tells them all to go away and mind their +own business. + +England suggests that, if the Sultan refuses, they shall call out their +soldiers and sailors, and fight him till they make him obey. + +Russia is unwilling that the Sultan should be forced to do what he does +not wish to do. + +The Russian Minister at Constantinople says that he knows for a fact, that +if the powers do anything to lower the Sultan's dignity in the eyes of +Europe, all the Turks will rise and make war upon the offending country. + +Russia says that to carry out the reforms that Europe asks for will take +money, and she thinks it would be wiser for Europe to provide Turkey with +the necessary money, and then keep an eye over her, and, through the +control this loan of money would give, see that the reforms are carried +out. + +This seems the most sensible plan, but nothing has been decided upon. + +The desired reforms deal entirely with the way the various provinces shall +be governed. + +Turkey is a very large empire, and the trouble with the present system of +government is, that the Sultan does not have resident ministers for the +various parts of it, as other countries do, but governs the whole himself, +being guided entirely by the advice of the few people near him in his +palace, who do not know the affairs of the empire any better than he does, +but advise him according to their own whims, or prospects of making money +out of the country. The result is great injustice to the people. + +Europe feels that this is not a proper way to govern a great country, and +insists that he shall rule his people with law and justice. + +Europe says that the Sultan must appoint ministers to govern the different +parts and departments of his empire, and that he must, as other sovereigns +do, ask the advice of his ministers before he makes the laws, and not be +guided entirely by personal favorites and friends. + +While all Europe is uneasy about him, the Sultan is keeping very quiet, +not letting any one have the smallest idea what he means to say or do when +these reforms are offered to him. + + * * * * * + +The Czar of Russia is quite ill, and every one feels sorry that he should +be sick now, when his advice and assistance are so badly needed to settle +the worrying Turkish question, which has so troubled Europe. + +The young Czar Nicholas, who was crowned with so much pomp and glory at +Moscow last August, seems unable to carry on the government of Russia. + +Many people say he is too weak to govern, and that there are going to be +troubles and revolts in Russia. + +The truth of the matter seems to be, that the young Czar is a gentle, +kind-hearted man, who will not govern Russia in the stern, cruel way that +his forefathers have done, and who is therefore thought to be weak and +incapable. + +While he is making a part of his people love him for his goodness, by far +the larger half, who have, under the old rule, been able to make money +and gain great power, are furious against him. + +Poor young Nicholas is not only hated by the people who were most friendly +to his father, but by the Nihilists, who look upon him as their natural +enemy, and, between the two parties, it is said that the Czar goes about +in constant fear of his life. + +Nicholas never wanted to be a ruler. Those who know him say that he has +become grave and sad in the few months since he came to the throne. + +It is said that he is of too gentle a disposition to be able to keep his +ministers in order, and that they quarrel fiercely in his presence, and +show very little respect for him. + +According to all accounts, his health is giving way under the constant +worry, and it is reported that he received a shock a few weeks ago, which +so completely upset him, that it brought on his present illness. + +He was walking in his gardens, and wishing to speak to one of the men who +was at work, he signalled to him to come to him. The gardener, proud of +his sovereign's notice, ran towards him at full speed. But a sentry, who +had not noticed the Czar's signal, fearing that the man was going to harm +the Emperor, fired his gun at him, and he fell dead at the Czar's feet. + +Nicholas was terribly overcome by the dreadful mistake. + +Some people say that his present illness is due to anxiety about the +Czarina, who is also ill, and again others say that the wound which +Nicholas received when he was travelling in Japan is the cause. + +He was struck by a crazy Japanese, and would have been killed, had not +Prince George of Greece, the son of the present King of Greece, who was +with him, warded off the blow. As it was, the blow was heavy enough to +form a lump on the young man's skull, which has caused him great pain, and +which some people declare is troubling him now. + +Whatever the cause, the Czar is ill, and in no state to attend to anything +but his own affairs. It is a sad pity just at this moment, when Europe +needs him so badly. + + * * * * * + +There is a little flurry in Siam. + +Siam is in Asia, just below China, and next door to Burmah. + +Some weeks ago a report came from Bangkok, the capital of Siam, that some +Siamese soldiers had fired upon and wounded our American Vice-Consul, Mr. +Kellett. + +Our minister there protested, and sent word of the outrage to the King. + +But the King of Siam did not take the slightest notice of the protest. + +Then word was sent to Washington, with the request that an American +gunboat be sent to Bangkok, to teach the Siamese to respect United States +citizens. + +The gunboat was despatched, and has duly arrived off Bangkok, but still +the King of Siam does not give any reason for the brutality of his +soldiers. + +It is said that an American named Cheek, who owned some very valuable +property in Siam, died a short while ago, and named Mr. Kellett in his +will as the man who was to settle his property for him. + +No sooner was Mr. Cheek dead, than the Siamese government tried to +prevent Mr. Kellett from settling his affairs, and did their best to stop +the sale of Mr. Cheek's property. + +It is reported that Mr. Kellett would not submit to this interference, but +did his duty very thoroughly, and tried to make the Siamese government +behave honorably, too. + +This enraged the Siamese, so the story goes, and they tried to kill Mr. +Kellett to get him out of the way. + +The captain of the gunboat, Commander Reiter, has orders from Washington +to look into the whole affair, and if he finds that the story we have +heard is true, and that Siam is in the wrong, he is to insist that the +King makes proper amends. + +The Siamese, having wounded the Consul of one country, soon after had +trouble with the representative of another. + +The German Minister to Siam was attacked in the streets, not by soldiers, +as was Mr. Kellett, but by a mob. + +The dispatches say that an American named Bennett put himself at the head +of the police, beat back the mob, and saved the German Minister's life. + +The reasons for this last outrage have not been given, but in this case +the Siamese government has behaved very well. + +An apology has been sent to the German Minister, and the King has +decorated him with some Siamese order. + +Of course this makes us feel all the more surprised that the King does not +take any notice of the wounding of Mr. Kellett, but our gunboat is at +Bangkok, and if the King owes us an apology, he will be made to give it. + + * * * * * + +The long-talked-of treaty between England and Venezuela has been signed. +These countries agree to settle the question of the boundary between +Venezuela and British Guiana by arbitration. + +In NO. 9 of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD you will find a full +account of the quarrel between England and Venezuela. It was said that +England claimed more land than belonged to her. + +You will see, if you look at NO. 9, how the United States stepped +in, and helped to adjust matters. + +The signing of this treaty brings a quarrel to an end that has been going +on for upwards of a century. + +The boundary line which has been so much disputed has been surveyed +several times, but no two surveyors have agreed, and so all the troubles +have come about. + +The treaty says that the arbitrators are to find out just how much land +belonged to the colony of British Guiana at the time it became the +property of England, and that they are to work from that point. + +The Committee of Arbitration is to meet in Paris, and is to consist of two +Englishmen, Baron Herschel, and Sir Richard Henn Collins, a Judge of the +English Supreme Court; one American, Judge Brewer; and one member chosen +by Venezuela, who is also an American, the Hon. Melville Weston Fuller, +Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. + +These four arbitrators are to decide among themselves who shall be the +fifth man to join them in their work. + +If they have not been able to agree on the fifth man in three months after +they meet, our old friend, King Oscar of Sweden, is to step in and fill +the vacant place. + +The treaty provides that within six months after it is signed the +committee must meet in Paris, and that the whole work shall, if possible, +be completed within six months after the meeting. + +The two copies of the treaty, as soon as they were signed by Sir Julian +Pauncefote for England, and Senor Jose Andrade for Venezuela, were sent +off, the one to London, the other to Caracas, to be ratified by the +governments of England and Venezuela. + +The ratification must be made within six months of the date of signing, +and then the work of the committee will begin. + + * * * * * + +Very little headway has been made with our own treaty with England. + +The Committee on Foreign Relations has made certain changes in it, and +handed it to the Senate with a recommendation that it be accepted. + +The changes made strike out the name of King Oscar of Sweden as umpire, +and narrow the work of the arbitrators down to dealing solely with matters +that concern Great Britain and the United States in their relations with +each other. + +The idea is to make it impossible for England to interfere if we wish to +make a treaty with another country. + +Some people think that if the treaty be ratified as first presented, we +will be compelled to ask the advice and permission of England in reference +to every treaty or similar arrangement we may want to make with other +countries. + +It seems most important, among other things, that we should be free to +make the best terms for ourselves in the matter of the Nicaragua Canal, +and that we ought to be entirely free to settle all questions with our +Central and South American neighbors. + +From what we hear, these alterations are not pleasing to the English +people. + +_The Times_, the most important London newspaper, says that it is a pity +that the treaty has been so much changed that it is really of no value at +all. The paper goes on to say that if the treaty should not be ratified by +the Senate, the good work done on it will not have been wasted, for it +will have given a great lesson to the people of both countries, and indeed +to the whole world. The first step has been taken toward the beginning of +universal peace. + +Meanwhile, the treaty is in the hands of the Senate, and may soon be +discussed. + + * * * * * + +News comes from Hamburg that the strike of the dock laborers is over. + +The strikers have been beaten because of their lack of money. + +In NO. 7 of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD you will find an +account of the strike, and if you will also refer to NO. 10, you +will see that it was thought that the strikers could not hold out very +much longer. + +The money the strikers expected to receive from other labor unions to help +them was so slow in coming that the men and their families were in want, +and no man is likely to stand out for the benefit of others when his own +children are suffering from cold and hunger. + +The men have gone back to their old employers and asked for work. The pity +of it all is, however, that during the strike others have been taken on in +their places, and the employers have now no work to give them. + +After holding out since the end of October, and refusing the masters' +offer to give them $1.10 a day, and let all future troubles be settled by +arbitration, the strikers have had to give in without gaining a single +point. It is very sad. + + * * * * * + +The plague in India is still raging fiercely, and every one is feeling +very grave about it. + +Europe is so afraid that it will spread, that the greatest care is being +taken to quarantine all people who have come from India. + +All letters and merchandise are carefully fumigated, and they say that in +Italy the authorities are so frightened that they fumigate the people, as +well as their clothes and baggage. + +So serious is the situation, that the Sultan of Turkey has issued an order +forbidding the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca. + +The European Ambassadors in Russia and Persia are begging the rulers of +those countries to forbid pilgrims to pass through their lands, or to +embark from their ports. + +You will understand what a very serious order this is, when you realize +that the pilgrimage to Mecca is a part of the religion of every Moslem, +and that about seventy thousand pilgrims go every year. + +In all religions, there is some special ceremony or service that people +must attend if they wish to be considered children of God. + +With the Moslems or the followers of Mohammed, it is necessary that once +in their lives they make the pilgrimage, or hadj as it is called, to +Mecca. + +It does not matter how many thousand miles of sea or land must be crossed +to reach Mecca; once in his life every Mohammedan must make the +pilgrimage, if he wants to reach paradise when he dies. + +The Mohammedans believe that when they have made their pilgrimage, they +are forgiven their sins, and can go back to the world as free from sin as +when they were born. All Mohammedans who have made this pilgrimage are +given the title of Hadji. + +There are about one hundred and seventy-six millions of Mohammedans who +believe this, and who have been believing it, and making their +pilgrimages, since and even before the year 620 A.D. + +These people are scattered through Asia, Europe, Africa, and Oceanica, +which, as you know, is sometimes called the fifth division of the globe by +geographers, and consists of Australasia and all the islands below Asia. +The Philippine Islands, where Spain's second war is raging, are a part of +Oceanica. + +If you will take your map, and see what an enormous portion of the globe +is inhabited by Mohammedans, and then find Mecca, which is in Arabia, +close to the Red Sea, you will understand that the making of this +pilgrimage is no easy thing to many of the Moslems, and that it must have +a most serious meaning to them to make them undertake such terrible +journeys. + +These people must save a great deal of money, and have much difficulty in +arranging their affairs, so that they can afford the time to make the +journey, which their religion says must be made on foot wherever it is +possible. + +Forbidding the pilgrimage for one year means the disappointing of seventy +thousand people, and it is thought that the Moslems may rebel against the +Sultan's decree. + +Even if they thought that the pilgrimage might spread the fearful plague, +and kill the millions of people who do not believe in the prophet +Mohammed, they would persist in going, thinking they would in that way be +doing a great work for their religion. + +The Sultan has therefore this very difficult matter to deal with, and +while Europe is wondering what to do with him, he is showing that after +all he has a great deal of courage and common sense. + +The pilgrimage is made to Mecca to perform there certain religious rites, +but particularly to visit the Great Mosque, or Temple, to pass around the +Kaaba, and to kiss the sacred Black Stone. + +The Kaaba is the most sacred shrine or altar of the Mohammedans. It was in +existence before Mohammed was born, in 570 A.D., and was a place of +worship even then. + +In one corner of it is the sacred stone, which the Moslems believe was +brought down from heaven by the angel Gabriel, and given by him to Abraham +to make the corner-stone of the Kaaba. + +They believe that the stone was originally a ruby, but that the tears +which the pilgrims have shed over it for their sins have turned it quite +black. + +The sacred black stone was broken in the year 683, and the pieces are +kept together by a silver setting. The stone itself is about eight inches +long, and is set into the outside wall of the Kaaba, where it can be +conveniently kissed by a person of medium height. + +Mohammedans always turn toward a certain point of the compass when they +say their prayers, and it is toward the sacred black stone that they turn. + +The gathering together of the pilgrims at Mecca has often brought plague, +and nearly always brings disease in its train, and there is very little +doubt but that the Bubonic Plague, which is raging in India, would be +caught by the pilgrims, and spread by them over the whole of Asia and +Europe. + +This plague is supposed to attack only the dirty and unwashed, and as the +majority of these pilgrims are filthy beyond description, it would be +certain to fasten upon them. + +This will be the first year, since the death of the prophet Mohammed, that +there has been no general pilgrimage to Mecca. + +We may hear a great deal more about it yet. + + * * * * * + +At last active measures are about being taken in reference to the terrible +Dead Man's Curve. + +Some weeks ago, it was said that it was to be done away with, and the cars +run through a tunnel made under Union Square. + +Nothing, however, has so far been done, and the people are getting tired +of risking their lives, to oblige a cable car company. + +At last the officers of the law have interfered, and the owners of the +road are being prosecuted, for having their cars run in such a manner +that it is a danger to citizens. + +The president of the company was called before the Grand Jury, and said +that it was impossible to run the cars around that curve in any other way +than that which is in use at the present time. + +Several engineers who understood all about cable cars were then called. +They said that if the company would put a short cable on the stretch of +road around the curve, there need be no more danger. They said that a +gripman could stop his car or slow up on a short cable, but that with the +long cable, such as the company is now using, it is impossible for the +gripman to have any control of his car while rounding the curve. + +The president of the company declared that a short cable would not work. +The case is to go to trial. While the worst that can be done to the +company is to be fined $500, people are looking forward to the trial, +because they expect that the witnesses who give evidence will show some +way of getting the car round the curve without shaking everybody who is in +it, and killing or wounding all who cannot jump out of its way. + + * * * * * + +Did you ever see a house move? + +If you have not, you have missed a very funny sight. + +Imagine driving along a country road, and meeting a three-story house +making a journey along the highway to new quarters. + +There is a good deal of this to be seen just now at Katonah, New York. + +A year or so ago the Croton water, which is in use in New York City, was +found to be impure. + +A commission was appointed to go and examine the Croton Water-Shed. This +meant that they were to examine the little streams, and brooks, and +rivers, and lakes, which supplied the water to our aqueduct, and see what +the trouble was. + +They found that along the banks of these streams and lakes, in villages +and out in the country, a great many dwelling-houses and shanties had been +built, the occupants of which were in the habit of throwing all sorts of +rubbish into the water, making it unfit for drinking. + +In consequence of this, all of the houses were ordered to be torn down or +moved away, and one small village of shanties was destroyed. Among others, +the inhabitants of Katonah were ordered to move, that the banks of the +stream might be cleared of dwellings. + +Katonah has a railroad depot, and a post-office, and thinks a good deal of +itself. + +When the Water-Shed Commission said that it must move or be destroyed, +Katonah gathered its residents together, and decided that rather than be +wiped off the face of the map, it would pick up its houses and move +itself. + +So a new Katonah was established, about a quarter of a mile away from the +old one, and just outside the Water-Shed on which it was forbidden to +build, for fear of spoiling the water for New York. + +For several months past there has been a procession of houses moving from +old Katonah to new. + +[Illustration: HOUSE MOVING] + +_The Sun_ gave an amusing account of seeing a barber's shop leading the +parade; this was closely followed by a large yellow cottage, with a cat, +who had refused to leave her home, still seated on the front door-step. + +The way that houses are moved is very simple. + +You of course understand that only frame or wooden houses can be moved any +distance. Houses of stone or brick would be likely to fall to pieces, and +being so heavy, the difficulty of moving them is greatly increased. They +are therefore seldom moved, and only for very short distances. + +Frame houses are always put on stone or brick foundations. If the wood +were put right down on the earth, the damp would soon rot it, and the +house would fall, so strong stone or brick foundations are first laid, and +then the wooden house is built upon them. + +When a house is to be moved, a carpenter puts beams across in all the weak +spots, the ceilings are shored up, and all is made snug inside. Then the +house is raised off the foundations on beams, and made all firm +underneath, and then is made to slide off its foundations on some huge +rollers that are laid in the high road. + +Ropes are then fastened to some of the heavy beams under the house, and +horses are brought. The ropes are tied to the horses, and as they pull, +the house slips from one roller to another. + +Houses can be moved very safely, but not very quickly, and it is of course +much less expensive to move an old house than to build a new one. + +One of the strangest things about the moving at Katonah, is that the +villagers are trying to take their shade trees with them, as well as their +houses. + +One of the residents had some very fine trees in his garden, and he hated +to leave them behind him, so he decided to try and see if they could not +be moved. + +The neighbors made the greatest fun of him, but he did not care, and set +to work as soon as the ground was frozen hard enough, to allow of the tree +being moved without disturbing the earth around the roots. + +The procession of houses is now varied by a great tree, forty feet high, +which is moving down the road in the same quiet, stately way as the cat, +and the barber's shop, and the yellow cottage. + + GENIE H. ROSENFELD. + + + + +INVENTION AND DISCOVERY. + + +A great sea monster has been washed ashore on the coast of Florida, and +men who study natural history are much interested in it. What is left of +the creature is said to weigh eight tons, and no one can tell exactly what +kind of a fish it is, because it appears to have been tossed by the waves +for a long time, and has been partly destroyed by them. + +Those people who have seen it think that it is a kind of cuttlefish, but +that the arms, or tentacles, as they are called, have been broken away +from it. These arms must have been from one to two hundred feet long. It +is now only a huge body without much shape to it. Photographs and careful +descriptions of it have been sent to the Smithsonian Institution in +Washington and to Yale College, and the scientific men there expect to be +able to decide what it is by comparing it with other known kinds of +mollusks. Scientists study these things so carefully, that they can tell +what the exact size of an animal was, and what it looked like, if but a +small portion is left; we may therefore expect to hear all about this +great creature ere long. + +The size of this wonderful creature can be better realized, when we learn +that it took four strong horses, a dozen men, and three sets of tackle to +move it. + +At first it seemed impossible to believe that such a terrific monster +really existed. Sailors have told so many yarns for the sake of making a +good story, that people are a little afraid to believe the wonderful tales +of the sea, but THE GREAT ROUND WORLD took pains to find out +that this eight-ton cuttlefish story was true, so we need have no doubts +about it. + +The cuttlefish, which supplies the bone we buy for our canaries, is a very +terrible fish indeed. + +The bone, as we call it, is not really bone, but a sort of half-formed +shell which the cuttlefish wears under its skin. + +It has a large round body, surrounded by eight arms, which are many times +the length of the body, and which it can twist or turn in any direction. +The mouth is in the centre of these arms. Professor Winchell describes +this ugly creature for us. He says: + +"Staring out from either side of the head (the head and body are really +one) is a pair of large, glassy eyes, which send a shudder over the +beholder. At the bottom of the sea the creature turns its eight arms down, +and walks like a huge submarine spider, thrusting its arms into the +crevices of the rocks, and extracting thence the luckless crab that had +thought itself secure from so bulky a foe. Each of the arms is covered +with what are called suckers. Each sucker consists of a little round horny +ridge, forming a little cup, which is attached to the arm by a stem. When +the arm is pressed upon an object, the effort to escape from the grasp of +the arm causes a suction which effectually retains the object." + +Professor Winchell goes on to tell that these cuttlefish or octopods +sometimes attain a very great size, and that sailors tell wonderful +stories about them. In one of these stories, the captain of a ship +declared that, while sailing off the African coast, he sent three of his +men over the side of the ship to scrape it. While they were at their work +one of these monsters reached its long arms up from the water and drew two +of them into the sea. + +Professor Winchell says that while this may be only a sailor's yarn, it is +at the same time well known that these creatures do attain a fearful size. + +The recent discovery of the cuttlefish in Florida may lead to some +extremely interesting discoveries. + + +HORSELESS FIRE-ENGINE. + +A monster steam fire-engine is being built for the city of Boston, and it +is to be a horseless engine. + +For some time past the Fire Department has been seeking for some engine +powerful enough to throw water to the top of the very high buildings--the +skyscrapers, as they are called. + +An ordinary engine is of very little use for these tall buildings. And an +engine large and powerful enough to throw the water to the necessary +height would be so heavy that no horses could draw it. + +The difficulty has been met by the invention of this horseless engine, +which will throw a two-inch stream of water over 300 feet into the air. + +The engine is propelled much in the same way as a steam engine. The driver +sits on a seat in front of the engine, and steers it by means of a wheel, +and the engine is moved by steam. + +When it arrives at the fire, the driving arrangement is disconnected, and +all the energy of the steam is turned into the apparatus for forcing up +the water. + +The engine is sixteen feet long, seven feet wide, and ten feet high. How +terrified the horses in the roads will be when this huge monster comes +rushing toward them, spouting fire, and appearing to move of its own free +will. + + +LIEUTENANT WISE AND HIS KITE. + +We gave an account, in an earlier number, of Lieutenant Wise and his +efforts to make kites strong enough to lift soldiers into the air, that +they may overlook an enemy's fortifications. + +He has almost succeeded. The other day he made a fresh attempt, and had +himself raised forty-two feet in the air. + +He sent up four kites, with a pulley and rope attached. To this rope a +boatswain's chair was fastened, and when the wind was blowing steadily +enough for him to make the attempt, he seated himself in the chair, and +had the soldiers who were helping him draw him up toward the kites. + +They succeeded in pulling him up forty-two feet, and when he was lowered +again he said that he did not feel uncomfortable while in his lofty perch, +and that the swinging motion was very slight. + +The experiment was made on Governor's Island, New York Harbor. + + G.H.R. + + + + VICTOR L. LAWSON HORACE WHITE HOKE SMITH + President First Vice-President Second Vice-President + + DIRECTORS + John Norris + M.H. de Young + Frederick Driscoll + F.B. Noyes + T.G. Rapier + C.W. Knapp + Clayton McMichael + A.J. Barr + L. Markbreit + Stephen O'Meara + Victor F. Lawson + +MELVILLE E. STONE General Manager + +CHARLES S. DIEHL Assistant General Manager + +GEORGE SCHNEIDER Treasurer + + + _The Associated Press_ + + _General Office_ + + _New York, January_ 23, 1897. + + + WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON, ESQ. + Publisher _Great Round World_. + + DEAR MR. HARISON: + + The conception of _The Great Round World_ magazine appeals to me + very strongly. It meets what has always been lacking in the + field of reading for the young; current history is of the + highest importance to the child, and should be clearly and + honestly told. In their book reading, the children have the + established facts of history presented in accurate and approved + form. The events of to-day, however, which will make possible + the chapters of history in the books of another decade, have + never been accurately presented in equally agreeable form until + the advent of the new magazine. It seems to me, therefore, that + it deserves and will have a vigorous growth. 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CRAFTS, _President International Union of +Primary Sabbath-School Teachers of the United States_. + + * * * * * + +=DESCRIPTION OF THE MAPS.= + +These maps are made in two forms, both with beautifully executed relief +(embossed)--the cheaper ones of plain stiff paper similar to drawing paper +(these are to be substituted for and used as outline map blanks), the +others covered with a durable waterproof surface, that can be quickly +cleaned with a damp sponge, adapted to receive a succession of markings +and cleansings. Oceans, lakes, and rivers, as well as land, appear in the +same color, white, so as to facilitate the use of the map as a +=_geographical slate_=. + + * * * * * + + =WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON + _3 & 5 W. 18th St. ... New York City_= + + * * * * * + + +=Evolution of Empire Series= + +UNITED STATES + +BY + +MARY PLATT PARMELE + +AUTHOR OF + +="Who? When? What?" "France," "Germany," "England," Etc.= + + Price, + Post-paid + 75 Cents + + * * * * * + +_From New York Sun Editorial Dec._ 30, 1896. + +In too many of the little school histories there is but a tedious, bare +narrative of apparently unconnected facts, and there is a profitless +rigmarole of dates and names: but when the sequence of cause and effect is +not obscured, and form and life are given to the actors, and the +development of events and institutions is traced, the story of the United +States becomes, as it should become, the most, fascinating as it is the +most important of histories to Americans; and whatever in historical +inquiry and writing promotes accuracy, adds detail, and clears up +obscurity, increases the worth and the, charm of the work. + +W.B. Harison has published in his "Evolution of Empire" series, a brief +historical sketch of the United States, by Mary Platt Parmele, whose other +volumes in the series have received cordial praise. In this book one finds +the story of our country told in about 300 pages, and very interestingly +is it written. The book leaves out the innumerable incidents and figures +which are of great importance to students, but which are not necessary in +a book for general reading, and presents the narrative in a graphic +manner, in which the interest of the reader never flags. The book is bound +in blue buckram and costs but 75 cents. The other volumes in the series +deal with the histories of France, England, and Germany, in the same +brilliant vein.--_Hartford Post._ + +Its value does not lie in the multitude of facts which it contains, but +rather in the lucid, natural way in which a few really important facts are +presented and grouped, and in the stimulus which it imparts to a rational +study of our country's history.--_The Review of Reviews._ + +In "The Evolution of an Empire," Mary Platt Parmele has endeavored to give +in outline the story of the discovery, settlement, and development of the +United States of America, touching only upon vital points and excluding +all detail. The task has been a most difficult one on account of the +constant temptation to deal with matters of minor importance. The author +has, however, succeeded in making a very acceptable book.--_Boston +Transcript._ + +The latest issue in the "Evolution of an Empire" series is Mary Platt +Parmele's "History of the United States." It is a short and simple +outline, which presents in a book of about 300 pages the main facts of our +national history, and a very fair and judicial presentment it is, too. +While the general reader will find it of interest, it has been prepared +more particularly for the young, who are easily wearied by the prolix +details which encumber so many of the histories prepared for them. Mrs. +Parmele very truly remarks that the child, bewildered in a labyrinth of +unfamiliar names and events, fails to grasp the main lines and soon +dislikes history, simply because he has been studying, not with a thinking +mind, but with one overtaxed faculty, memory, intended to be the humble +handmaid of the higher faculties. In the work under consideration, she +begins with the first voyage of Columbus and brings us down to the +principal events of 1893; she is sparing of details, and has merely +skeletonized her theme, adding sufficient of incident, to avoid dryness. +It seems a meritorious and well-prepared work, and a chronological table +adds to its value.--_The Detroit Free Press._ + + =WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON= + + =3 and 5 West 18th St.--44 East 49th St.= + + =NEW YORK CITY= + + + +[Transcriber's notes: In "Lieutenant Wise and His Kite" the word +Lieutenant was changed from Lieuttenant in the first paragraph.] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is +Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND *** + +***** This file should be named 15326.txt or 15326.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/2/15326/ + +Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. +(www.pgdp.net) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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