CONTENTS

VOLUME XVII

An Outline Narrative of the Great Events,

CHARLES F. HORNE

The Invention of the Telegraph (A.D. 1844),

ALONZO B. CORNELL

Repeal of the English Corn Laws (A.D. 1846),

SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY

Migrations of the Mormons (A.D. 1848), .

THOMAS L. KANE

The Reforms of Pius IX

His Flight from Rome (A.D. 1848),

FRANCIS BOWEN

The Revolution of February in France (A.D. 1848),

FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT AND MME. GUIZOT

DE WITT

Revolutionary Movements in Germany (A.D. 1848), .

C. EDMUND MAURICE

The Revolt of Hungary (A.D. 1848),

ARMINIUS VAMBERY

The Discovery of Gold in California (A.D. 1848),

JOHN S. HITTELL

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152

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic (A.D. 1849),

JESSIE WHITE MARIO

Livingstone's African Discoveries (A.D. 1849), •

198

213

DAVID LIVINGSTONE

THOMAS HUGHES

The Coup d'Etat of Louis Napoleon (A.D. 1851),

230

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

The Discovery of Gold in Australia (A.D. 1851),

EDWARD JENKS

The Rise of the Republican Party (A.D. 1854),

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The Opening of Japan (A.D. 1854), •

MATTHEW C. PERRY

The Capture of Sebastopol (A.D. 1855),

SIR EDWARD B. HAMLEY

SIR EVELYN WOOD

The Indian Mutiny (A.D. 1857),

J. TALBOYS WHEELER

297

The Battles of Magenta and Solferino (A.D. 1859), .

PIETRO ORSI

Darwin Publishes His Origin of Species (A.D. 1859),

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN

The Kingdom of Italy Established (A.D. 1860),

GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI

JOHN WEBB PROBYN

The Emancipation of Russian Serfs (A.D. 1861),

ANDREW D. WHITE

NIKOLAI TURGENIEFF

Universal Chronology (A.D. 1844-1861),

DANIEL EDWIN WHEELER

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353

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ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME XVII

The mutinous Sepoys blown from the mouths of cannon

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by the English at Cawnpore (page 317), Frontispiece

Painting by Basil Verestchagin.

Charge of the Six Hundred at Balaklava,

Painting by Stanley Berkeley.

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