j v PREFACE. 



Tlu- article entitled -Cities, American, Recent Growth of," begun in the 

 'Annual Cvelopa-dia " f..r 1S8G, is continued in this volume, where 21 are 

 h-M-ribed, making the whole number thus treated -145. In the greatest of our 

 Fork the year witnessed the culmination of an important move- 

 ment toward reform : and the story is told in the article on the city, with por- 

 of the Kev. Charlea II. Parkhurst and Mayor Strong. 



t quick, running account of the happenings of the year, in chronological 

 order, the reader may glance down the columns of the articles "Events of 

 1 89 \ " and " I )i.si>ters' in 1MM-," and fuller accounts of the more important ones 

 will be found in the various articles where they belong. Nearly or quite every 

 cnimtrv in the world is treated under its own name, with subheads that enable 

 the reader to turn at once tothe specific information he seeks. The articles on 

 the religious denominations include not merely the great and well-known organ- 

 i/ations. hut many also of the smaller ones, such as "Brethren," "Disciples of 

 ( -|iri>t." " old ( atholic Church," and " United Evangelical Church." 



The article " United States, Finances of the," shows our governmental re- 

 ceipts and expenditures, while the "Financial Review of 1894" tells the story 

 of the general business of the country, and " Gifts and Bequests" records the 

 notable acquisitions for education and charity. 



Among the special articles are those entitled " Commercial Travelers," " Edu- 

 :u Tinted States Bureau of," " Niagara Falls, Electrical Power at," "Patri- 

 otic - ." " Sero-Therapy," "Water Supply," and "Woman Suffrage." 

 The death roll of the year is very important. France lost her President, 

 -ia her Kmpcror. and Germany her most eminent scientist, llelmholtz. 

 Twenty-two Governors or ex-Governors of States died. Literature lost Oliver 

 Wendell Holmes, .lames Anthony Fronde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip 

 (iilhert Hamerton, Christina G. Rossetti, Celia Thaxter, and Constance Fenimore 

 ilson ; painting ht George I nness, William Hart, and Healy ; music lost 

 Von I'iilow, Rubinstein, and Mr.-. Mapleson ; sculpture lost Launt Thompson; 

 licine h>>t I'rown-Srquard : chemistry lost Josiah P. Cooke ; theology lost 

 Ian h, William A. Passavant, K/ekiel G. Robinson, and William G. T. 

 id ; and edue;iti, ir , ] M> t Pn-ident AV filing and Prof. Whitney. The men 

 tha- "ininent in tin- irreat civil war are passing away with increasing 

 rapidity. The var juM pa^t ended the lives of Gens. Banks, Early, Slocum, 

 and Stonriiiim. Gov*. /.-hiilon 15. N'ance and Andrew G. Curtin, and the Hon. 

 ph Holt. It also closed tlie lon<r livr- of Kossuth the revolutionist, Layard 

 >lorer, anl Leseepa the engineer. Of all these the volume presents 



liem illu-trated with portraits. 



Our illu hrilliant colored plate showing the insignia of the 



tiona that have l.een orpuii/ed within a few years; a colored 

 mai ign battle ships ; a finely etched portrait 



i t'rm lite Studies; full -paL'' 1 portrait^ of Holmes and the new 

 the nr\v German Parliament House; the ]>rincipal struc- 

 ture- of tin- AlltWi nd inunerou.- vi^ncttp portraits. 



th an index to the entire >e;ies. 

 1895. 



