PREFACE. 



articles present a full history of the Northwest Kebellion and the career of Kiel, 

 together with other matters of interest in the Dominion. 



In Europe the never-ending Eastern Question is still prominent, and its latest 

 effirt.s inav be read in the history of the war between Bulgaria and Servia, of 

 which we'give a full account in the article on the latter country. The article 

 on Egypt is contributed this year by Colonel Charles Chaille Long, who saw hard 

 service in that country, both as an aide to General Gordon and as acting consul 

 in Alexandria. The rise of the Conservatives to power in Great Britain is 

 recorded, with portraits of the principal members of the Salisbury Ministry. 

 The reader will be better enabled to understand the land-league and crofter 

 troubles in Ireland and Scotland, if he turns to Prof. King's carefully written 

 article on Land Laws. The movements of European powers for the acquisition 

 of new territory in remote quarters of the globe are related in the articles on 

 Papua and the Caroline Islands. The articles Knights of Labor and Knights of 

 Pythias are compiled from information obtained at headquarters. 



The out-door sports described in this volume are Base-Ball, La Crosse, and 

 Yachting all treated by experts. The subject of Yachting had a special inter- 

 est in 1885 from the race between the "Puritan" and the " Genesta." 



Our article on Patents is continued, showing what has been done during the 

 year; and a wonderful instance of the ingenuity of modern inventors is pre- 

 sented in the copiously illustrated article on Automatic Musical Instruments. 



Rev. A. C. Kendrick, D. D., of the American committee to revise the New 

 Testament, tells the story of the revision of our English version of the Bible, 

 completed hi 1885. Mr. John D. Champlin, Jr., one of the most successful of 

 American cyclopaedists, furnishes an article on the Fine Arts in 1884-'85, and 

 this subject will be continued by him from year to year. Dr. Titus M. Coan, 

 who has made a special study of mineral waters, both in the United States and 

 in Europe, gives the latest results of his investigations. Mr. G. K. Gilbert, em- 

 ployed for many years on the United States Geological Survey, both in the field 

 and in the office at Washington, presents some of the more notable results of that 

 work, together with a colored map showing the great terminal moraine of the 

 second glacial epoch. Among the other special articles are those on Bimetallic 

 Currency, American Game, Terrapin- Culture, Slaughtering by Machinery, Char- 

 ity Organization, and Dr. Swift's excellent article on the progress of astronomy. 



At the end of the book the reader will find an index covering the entire 

 ten volumes of the series. 



Niw YORK, March 4, 1886. 



