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documents of the Expedition, and has also availed himself of the reports on 

 the line of route published by Mr. Dawson, C. E. , and by the Typogra- 

 phical Department of the War Office. The statements made may therefore 

 be relied on as accurate and impartial. The endeavour has been made to 

 avoid tiring the general reader with dry details of military movements, and 

 yet not to sacrifice the character of the work as an account of a military 

 expedition. The volume contains a portrait of President Louis Riel, and 

 Maps of the route. The ATHEN.UM calls it " an enduring authentic 

 record of one of the mo'st creditable achievements ever accomplished by the 

 British Army." 



Irving. THE ANNALS OF OUR TIME. A Diurnal of Events, 

 Social arid Political, Home and Foreign, from the Accession of 

 Queen Victoria to the Peace of Versailles. By JOSEPH IRVING. 

 Second Edition. 8vo. half-bound. i6s. 



Every occurrence, metropolitan or provincial, home or foreign, which 

 gave rise to public excitement or discussion, or became the starting point for 

 new trains of thought affecting our social life, has been judged proper matter 

 for this volume. In the proceedings of Parliament, an endeavour Aas 

 been made to notice all those Debates which were either remarkable as 

 affecting the fate of parties, or led to important changes in our relations 

 with Foreign Powers. Brief notices have been given of the death of all 

 noteivorthy persons. Though the events are set down day by day in their 

 order of occurrence, the book is, in its way, the history of an important 

 and well-defined historic cycle. In these ' Annals, ,' the ordinary reader 

 may make himself acquainted with the history of his own time in a way 

 that has at least the merit of simplicity and readiness ; the more cultivated 

 student will doubtless be thankful for the opportunity given him of passing 

 down the historic strtam undisturbed by any other theoretical or party 

 feeling than what he himself has at hand to explain the philosophy of o^^r 

 national story. A complete -and iiseful Index is appended. The Table 

 of Administrations is designed to assist the reader in folJoiving the various 

 political changes noticed in their chronological order in the ' AnnalsS 

 In the new edition all errors and omissions have been rectified, 300 pages 

 been added, and as many as 46 occupied by an impartial exhibition of the 

 wonderful series of events marking the latter half of 1870. " We 

 have be/ore us a trusty and ready guide to the events of the past thirty 

 years, available equally for the statesman, the politician, the public 

 writer, and the general reader. If Mr. Irving 's object has been to bring 

 before the reader all the most noteivorthy occiirrences which have happened 



