CONTENTS. 



P4.OK 



PREFACE ... 



INDEX ....... . . 35] 



BOOK I. 



GOVERNMENT AND LAW. 



Government of the United States Porto Rico Cuba Philippines Hawaii 

 Guam Declaration of Independence Mechlenberg Declaration Constitution 

 of the United States Government of the States and Territories Copyright 

 Law Patent Office Procedure Naturalization Laws Passport Regulations 

 Civil Service U. S. Customs Duties War Revenue Taxes British Customs 

 Tariff Labor Legislation Pension Laws Jurisdiction of Justices of the 

 Peace The Law of Finding U.S. Customs Regulations as to Baggage Law? 

 of Suffrage State and Territorial Statistics Federal Bankruptcy Act Law 

 of Trade-Marks Interstate Commerce Law Business Law and Forms 

 Interest Laws and Statutes of Limitation Law of Inns and Innkeepers Law 

 of the Road Landlord and Tenant -Exemption Laws Marriage and Divorce 

 Laws Rights of Married Women Government of the British Empire 

 Canada Argentine Republic Austria-Hungary Belgium Brazil Chile 



China France German Empire Greece Italy Japan Mexico 

 Netherlands Russia Spain Turkey Statistics of the Countries of the 

 World Heads of the Governments of the World Divisions of Africa Trial 

 by Jury Draco's Laws Laws of Subscription Chinese Emigration Laws 

 Postal Laws Indebtedness of Nations Parliamentary Law Prohibitory Laws 1C 



BOOK II. 



LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 



Literature Languages English Language Capital Letters Punctuation Proof 

 Reading Familiar Allusions Foreign Wordj* and Phrases Great Men's 

 Works Authors of Famous Poems Celebrated Characters in Literature 

 Literary Pseudonyms First Newspapers Nibelungeii Lied Forty Immortals 

 of the French Academy The World's Best Books Abbreviations in General 

 Use Christian Names Alphabets Early Literature Chinese Literature 

 Greek Literature Hebrew Literature Roman Literature Sanscrit Literature 



Arabic Literature Persian Literature Italian Literature Spanish Liter- 

 ature Portuguese Literature French Literature German Literature 

 Scandinavian Literature Russian Literature Polish Literature English 

 Literature American Literature Hungarian Literature Volapiik Lan- 

 guages of the World History of Writing French Academy Troubadours 

 The Iliad The ^Eneid Gesta Romanorum Norse Sagas Miracle rlays 



Romance of the Rose Classic and Romantic Literature Goethe's Faust 

 Dante Latin Language Surnames Poet Laureate Renaissance History 



of the Theater Misuse of Words . . . . . . . . .120 



BOOK III. 



HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 



Chronological Eras Divisions of Time Old English Holidays Legal Holidays 

 Standard Time Perpetual Calendar Anniversaries First Day of the Year 

 General Church Councils Origin of Months and Days of the Week Diction- 

 ary of Mythology and Folklore Outlines of Universal History Calendar of 

 American Battles Dictionary of Biography Admission of States into the 

 Union Organization of the Territories Derivations of Names of States and 

 Territories Rulers of France from the Revolution Kings and Queens of 

 England Presidents of the U. S. Vice-Presidents of the U. S. Justices of 

 the U. S. Supreme Court Cabinet Officers Speakers of the U. S. House of 



