...relations between Britain and Russia were so strained that at one moment war seemed inevitable. But during the closing years of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth a change was perceptible in the relations of the two powers. Two facts were responsible for this change....

...individual farmers. It is, I think, no exaggeration to say that when some future historian deals with the closing years of the nineteenth century, and the opening years of the twentieth, he will, in his survey, especially, of the countries of Continental Europe, turn much more readily...

...in such a record as this book aims to give. Moreover, the period which follows, including the last years of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth, is one in which production is so enormous, and schools and tendencies so numerous and contradictory,...

...determined spirit carries forward to a successful outcome whatever he undertakes. CHARLES A. BENO. The rapid development of all material resources during...from the day of small things to gigantic proportions. New conditions have arisen in the business world and men of capacity and enterprise have met these...

...workers and his success, so great as to seem almost magical, is attributable directly to his own labors. The rapid development of all material resources during...nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth has brought business enterprises up from the day of small things to gigantic proportions, where millions...

...anticipate the verdict of posterity, but this at least may be foretold, that no historian dealing with the closing years of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth century will be able to minimise the vast importance to the world at large of the remarkable change which has...

...connection with bimetallism. In the production of gold, another great change has been taking place during the closing years of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth. The annual output of gold had remained nearly stationary after the Californian and Australian discoveries...

...In this hope I was not disappointed. The last decade has brought forth works of indisputable value. During the closing years of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the present one, thousands of hitherto unknown letters of Napoleon have come to light. Many new documents...

...town, not exceptional to this community but pertaining to nearly all purely rural towns of New England. The closing years of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the new are, therefore, not so replete with stirring events as their predecessors, but the story is still...

...country, while the artistic interests of America were represented in the east, but in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth century Chicago and the middle west have rapidly forged to the front in those fields and the writers of this...