PEEFAC I 



event of 1 *'..".. in t! : tlic world and it may 



t<> he tin* moM t wan tlie declaration by our (Jovernm 



a purpose to apj.lv the Monroe doctrine to the lotindury di-pute that ha> been 

 _r on M) : Venezuela concern inj; the west- 



ri>h ( itii:i: i. Whether the KnjJUh claim i- Imm-t. 



ipidity c\cit-d hy tlie discovery of ri- fields 



in eastern is a fair iSM<n. and iU exarnit ill be 



greatly assisted by the history of the cae in our ar -nezuela" and the 



accoj j colored map. The aaterti uith it* 



pottihlr n illy l>ririL r - the in<pi; / have we to rely upon in eaae 



large part hy t!j- arti-l- in thi volume 



on t \lii.-h lias been 1 carefully fmrn official 



sources a VH the strength >f tliat organization in the several State* and 



I. It with portraits of some of the beet known of 



TS. For in: n as to actual ware waged in 1S95 the 



reader will turn to the arronnt of tin- Italian advance into Abyatinia, that of the 



ix-llion in Cuba. 



war to the arts of peace, we have an im- 

 portant ariirlr --'I " M iros in the I'nited States," whirh shows the capital 

 inve>' cost of material, and the value of the produ- 



:-.i-try exceeds $200,000. 



The progress oi ' -corded in the articles " Associations Ad- 



ii v," ('heini>tr Meteorol- 



,11 of which are uled, PO that 



to readily find the >|K-eitie >ul.jret in whieh he i* interested. 



-.titie the art;.'. - 1 ',:.-\ '..--." Kngineer- 

 : iages," and " may U eonMilted. 



The article, on th<* Domini. . the separate provinces, 



by a native Canadian from direet information, will lie found unusually full and 



lada is our own Alaska. Material is not available 

 thi- Territor\ -v. TV year, hut in the present volume we pre- 

 11 the p' the l"niver> ^an, who 



has Studied the suhjeet on the ground. 



les on the L r n>at : deniminations will U- found full as usual, 



and that elass this year includes also * mailer and less known organi- 



zations, sueh as"Chri-tian Endeavor, 91 Congress of Free Churches," "Evan- 

 il Asso< "Independent Roman Catholic Church," u Reunion of 



