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The Poets of the Period—Dickens and Thackeray—Progress in Science—Triumphs of Engineering—The Doctrine of Evolution—The World of Art—Some Famous Pictures—The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—The Philharmonic Society and its Conductors—A Musical Revival—Legitimate Drama in the Days of Macready and Kean—Ellen Terry's First Appearance—A Higher Tone in Court Life—Magnates of Industry—Beginnings of Teetotalism—The State of Education—Condition of the Agricultural Labourer—Fighting Preventable Diseases—Fashions and Modes in the 'Fifties—The Crinoline—Contemporary Masculine Attire—What the Children Wore—The Amusements of the Masses. . . 127

France in Revolt—Guizot Interferes—A Fatal Mistake—The Tuileries Besieged—Louis Philippe Signs his Abdication—Flight to England—General Unrest in Europe—German Troubles—The New Constitution—Prince Metternich and the Austrian Revolution—Kossuth's Gospel—The Second Outbreak—Vienna Surrenders—Chaos in Hungary—A Barbarous War—Italy Rises—Garibaldi's Influence—Cavour and Mazzini—Dawn of Political Liberty in Europe—The War Cloud in the Near East—Turkey and Russia—England Involved—Causes of the Crimean War. . . 151

The Beginnings of Empire—Edward's Imperialistic Training—South Africa at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century—Later Days of the Grand Trek—Boer v. Zulu—A Glimpse of Kruger's Youth—The Trouble in 1848—The Bloemfontein Convention—Canada in Turmoil—A Change for the Better—The Act of Union—Settlement of the Boundary Question—Lord Elgin's Work—Early Colonisation in Australasia—The Maori Wars—Finding Gold in Australia—Growth of the Continent-Colony—Events in Afghanistan and India—Incidents of the Mutiny—Some of its Causes. . . 171

The Prince at Eighteen—"A Youth of Uncommon Distinction"—Some Canadian Reminiscences—Loyalty in the Backwoods—Premonitions of Federation—Queen Victoria's Alternative—The Objects of the Trip—Prior Conditions in Canada—The Influence of the