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the Various Countries of the "World." This article is illustrated by numerous 

 engravings, showing the relative magnitude of these debts, and by colored maps 

 of the relative indebtedness of different sections of the country. 



The " Kecent Progress of the States " is fully noted, and that especially of 

 Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, and 

 Louisiana, receives particular attention in articles prepared from official and 

 original documents by Professor W. M. Browne, of Georgia. Other subjects of 

 a public nature are presented under " Labor Movements and Agitations " ; de- 

 cisions of questions of constitutional law, under " Obligation of State Con- 

 tracts"; "Suits against a State"; "Railroad Taxation"; "Chinese Immigra- 

 tion " ; the surprising " Political Kevolution of the Year," with its results, is set 

 forth under " New York " and " United States." 



The stirring events in some foreign countries have been of unusual interest ; 

 as the " Irresistible British Campaign in Egypt," which is authoritatively nar- 

 rated, with illustrations ; the " Irish Question " ; the " Cloture in England " ; the 

 " Struggle of Bismarck with the Reichstag " ; the " Austrian Campaign in Her- 

 zegovina." The recent views on " Non-intervention among Nations," in oppo- 

 sition to that intervention which is an endless cause of wars, and the " Disci- 

 plinary Power of Legislative Assemblies," both by the editor of the " whole 

 series" of these volumes, discuss some most vital principles. An illustrated 

 article on the " Navies of Europe " affords a complete understanding of their 

 immense power, and of the principal naval question of the age the contest 

 between plated armor and heavy guns. The recent " Italian Experiments at 

 Spezia " are reported with illustrations. 



Of the long list of special articles and new subjects may be mentioned, " The 

 Sanitary Control of Epidemic Diseases," illustrating the experience with the 

 yellow fever in Texas during the year, by Dr. John B. Hamilton. It is the first 

 formal article on the subject which has appeared in print, and will serve as a 

 guide to municipal health in all the States and cities of the Union ; the " Prog- 

 ress made in Electric Lighting" ; the " Storage of Electric Energy " ; " Sewage 

 Disposal " ; " Astronomy," by Professor Daniel Kirkwood, of Indiana ; " Physi- 

 ology " ; " Metallurgy " ; " Egyptological and Assyriological Research," its re- 

 sults to the present time ; the " Manufacture of Oleomargarine " ; " Operations 

 in Ostrich-Farming " ; the " Harvests of the World " for 1882, etc. The rec- 

 ord of Literature and Literary Progress in this country and those of Europe is 

 extensive as usual. 



The great Engineering enterprises of the world are specially described. 

 Articles on the great religious divisions and denominations present the religious 

 history of the year. Biographical notices of eminent persons of all countries are 

 included in these pages. 



Fine steel portraits of Chief -Justice "Waite, Sir Garnet Wolseley, the con- 

 queror of Egypt, and Sir John A. Macdonald, the Canadian premier, illustrate 

 the volume, together with smaller portraits of prominent men of the year, in- 

 cluding the members of the President's Cabinet, with maps and diagrams. 



