The Annual Summaries for a Quarter of a Century

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of much divided Germany, and accomplish at Paris her long-matured scheme for the restoration of the German Empire under her own dynasty; it has seen the losses and humiliations of Germany repaid with tenfold interest on her foe. and France, in her turn, laid under the hoel of an uupitying conqueror; it has seen in France a political beginning whereof none can guess the end. In the course of these events it has seen battles, defeats, surrenders, capitulations, on a scale and with incidents beyond all former example. At home it has seen a Parliamentary Reform Act hardly less important than the first; it has seen British armies triumphant in Abyssinia and Coomassie; it has seen Spain surpassing herself in revolution, anarchy, and civil war; it has seen the commencement, the completion, and now the practical acquisition by our own country of, perhaps, the grandest material work ever achieved by man?the Canal which divides continents and unites the northern and southern oceans; it has seen the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the settlement of Irish Tenant Right, the foundation, at length, of a really national system of elementary Education, and the serious progress of many measures for the health of the people; it has seen England visited by distant potentates better known hitherto in travel or in tale; it has seen steam substituted for sails, and iron armour-plates for the " wooden walls " of England, on a scale beyond the dreams of our forefathers; it has seen even the Army accept some once impossible reforms; it has Been, the electric wire, which, twenty-fiveyears ago, was just known to the educated and used by the wealthy, carried to every post-office and station in the country; it has seen the Thames embanked and the Metropolis drained; it has seen the completion...

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