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» Four Important Timely Volumes 



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* The Great Boer War 



I By A. CON AN DOYLE 



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* " One of the most important, because one of the most candid and straight- 

 ^ forward comments on the great Boer war." — Army and Navy Register. 

 ft "To the strict impartiality of the historian he adds the warmth of a novelist's 

 j> imagination, and the result is a book which will be read with the keenest pleasure 



* for long days to come." — London Daily Telegraph. 

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{ An American Engineer in China 



* Bv WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS 



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» A few months ago Mr. Parsons led a party of engineers into the 



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* knowledge of the country, its people, resources and future possibilities, 

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h Under the divisions Siberia, China and Japan, the author has traced 



£ the development of Asia from their golden age of long ago down to the 



modern present. He treats comprehensively the evolution of Japan, the 



> astonishing development of Russia in Siberia, and the changes in China. 



fr " Altogether," says the Nation, " this is a very timely and very able book 



» by an author who gathers without prejudice his facts at first hand." 



ft With an Introduction by Henry Norman. Cloth, \zmo. $1.50. 



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* . The Philippines: The War and the People 



ft Bv ALBERT G. ROBINSON 



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interior of China in order to locate a route for an American railway in that 

 country. He accomplished more than discovery; he secured an exact 



fell to the lot of a traveller. 



Illustrated. Cloth, \zmo. $1.50. 



The Awakening of the East 



Bv PIERRE LEROY-BEAULIEU 



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The author spent several months among the people of the Philip- ^ 



pines studying their conditions and manner of life. He visited many ^ 



parts of the islands and has described in vigorous and vivid language the ^ 



scenes in our new possessions and the character of the people living there. ^ 



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