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 LIFE AND TIMES OF EDWARD VII. In succeeding volumes we shall have cause to extend this survey of the affairs of the world to Africa and to the Far East, and to link up with the life of King Edward and the activities of the states men of his day the events which have thrown Asia open to the influence and and estab West of the commerce in almost authority European lished In every part of the African Continent. the

meantime

personal

of

occurrences

character

demand

a

more

treatment,

and in the next volume the story of the life of the King as Prince of Wales will be his journey with the Princess to resumed

Egypt and Constantinople, the illness of 1871, the National thanksgiving for his recovery, the momentous visit to India and the assumption by the Sovereign of

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the Imperial Crown of India.

Thereafter of the Prince of Wales in the cause of Charity, in the promotion of various schemes of public utility, in the discharge of

we shall review the public activities

those

ceremonial

duties

which

Queen

Victoria found herself unable to fulfil in person.

In

the third volume

also it will be our

duty to sketch the course of domestic politics and Imperial history and bring the narrative down to British mastery of the sources of the Nile, the war in South Africa, the absorption of the Dutch Republics, the second Jubilee of Queen Victoria, and the death of that great Sovereign, leaving the incidents of the accession and reign of Edward VII. for the two volumes that follow.

& Company, Limited,

La Beli

e Sauvage,

London, E.C.