CHAPTER I. How Man sailed East and West

II. The Stories of the Old East and of the New West III. Three Kings and a Monk IV. The Waning Power of Spain V. The Wars of Religion VI. The Growing Power of France VII. The Humbling of France VIII. From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle IX. The Seven Years' War X. How The United States won Independence XI. How the Stage was set for the French Revolution XII. The Revolution and the Terror XIII. The Napoleonic Wars XIV. The Expansion of the Anglo-Saxon and the Slav XV. Steam and Evolution XVI. The Resettlement of Europe XVII. The Settlement of America XVIII. "The White Man's Burden" SECTION I.--Africa SECTION II.--India and the Far East SECTION III.--The Far South Index

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Railway Centenary, 1925: Ancient and Modern Locomotives ... _Frontispiece_

Ships of the Time of Henry VIII.

Mexican Picture Writing

Statue of Buddha

Sir Francis Drake

General Wolfe's Statue, Quebec

The Potala at Lhasa

The Taj Mahal, Agra

Warren Hastings

The Modern Palace of Versailles

Napoleon I.

H.M.S. "Victory" after Trafalgar

The Duke of Wellington

An Old Mail Coach

Old Hand Loom and Modern Power Loom

Garibaldi

Old Japan: Entrance to the Tombs, Tokio

A Street Scene in Modern Japan

A Scene in New Zealand: Mt. Pembroke

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