i v PREFACE. 



it was $38,000,000. The reader who wishes to pursue this subject further should look 

 also at the record of mission work in the articles on the great religious denominations. 



The articles " Financial Review of 1898 " and " Finances of the United States " 

 will give a clear idea of the mercantile and monetary movements of the year ; and in 

 connection with these the reader should look at the tabulated trade summaries in the 

 articles on the more important countries. 



The series of portraits of new governors in the articles on States of the Union 

 is continued. It is not complete, for the reason that one was unwilling to have his 

 portrait published, and one or two others failed to respond at all. 



The literatures of the world American, British, and Continental are pre- 

 sented in the usual summaries, which give a rapid survey of the whole field. And the 

 " Disasters " and " Events " of the year are treated in brief chronological paragraphs. 

 The.-e articles are intended as indicators rather than an attempt to give full information, 

 which would be impossible in a volume like this. 



Among the eminent dead of the year the names of the two great European 

 statesmen Bismarck and Gladstone stand pre-eminent. On each of these there is 

 a special article, written by a competent hand, with a portrait in photogravure. The 

 soldiers that died in this year included Gens. Augur, Buell, and Rosecrans, who won 

 their fame in the civil war; the two Caprons, victims of the Spanish war; and Calixto 

 Garcia. Among the naval officers that passed away were Daniel Ammen, Worth 

 Bagley, Daniel L. Braine, Charles V. Gridley, Milton Haxtun, and William A. Kirk- 

 land. The lawyers and statesmen included Thomas F. Bayard, Thomas M. Cooley, 

 Robert M. McLane, Justin S. Morrill, Don M. Romero, William H. Trescot, and Sir 

 George Grey. The dramatic profession lost some who were once universal favorites 

 but had retired, and some who were still on the boards, including William Barry, 

 Charles W. Couldock, Fanny Davenport, Virginia Dreher, Helen Faucit, Clara Fisher, 

 E. J. Henley, Thomas W. Keene, Margaret Mather, and William J. Scanlan. The 

 list of authors who closed their careers in 1898 includes two young Americans, each 

 of whom produced a book of phenomenal popularity Edward Bellamy and Edward 

 N. Westcott. The other names on the literary death roll include William Black, 

 Mary Cowden Clarke, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Charles L. Dodgson, Georg 

 Moritz Ebers, Theodore S. Fay, Harold Frederic, Blanche Willis Howard, Richard 

 Malcolm Johnston, George Parsons Lathrop, Mrs. E. Lynn Linton, James Payn, 

 Maria Louise Pool. Frederick Tennyson, and David A. Wells. The scientists lost 

 James II all, Joseph A. Lintner, William A.Rogers, and George E. Waring; the 

 journalists. Isaac II. Bromley, Frederick W. Conrad, William T. Giles, and Charles L. 

 Mar Arthur: the inventors, Sir Henry Bessemer, Wilson Eddy, and A. C. Goodell; 

 the artists, Burne-Jones, Philip II. Calderon, Puvis de Chavannes, John A. Fraser, 

 and Anton Sridl. Of the eminent persons in the necrology who could not be classed 

 with any of the foregoing were the reformers Matilda Joslyn Gage, Parker Pills- 

 bury, and Frances E. Willanl : the impostors, Arthur Orton (Tichborne claimant) and 

 John E. W. Keely ; Calvin Fail-bank, the abolitionist; II. C. L. Dorsey, known as 

 "the prisoner's friend": Gardner O. Coltou, one of the claimants to the discovery 

 of anaesthetics : A. < >akev Hall, of Tweed-ring fame; and Adolph Sutro, the mining 

 engineer. Sketches of all these and scores of others many of them accompanied 

 with portraits will lie found under the head of " Obituaries." 



The notable illustrations not already mentioned include colored maps of Asia and 

 Egypt and several full-page engravings. 



An index to the three volumes of the series closes the book. 



