Of the essays included in this volume all but one that on "The Process of Reconstruction" have been published before during the last eleven years : four in the Political Science Quar terly, one in the Yale Review, and one in the " Papers of the American Historical Association."

For the assistance they have given me in the preparation of this book, and for the countless kindnesses they have shown me, I am indebted to many persons in many countries.

Chronicles the role of the Combat Cargo Command during the Korean War under the command of Major General Tunner.

The object of this book is to provide for the intelligent citizen — including the large inarticulate public, as well as the student, the publicist, the legislator, the business man, the shipper, and the railroad security holder, executive, and employee — an analysis of the American railroad problem as it presents itself to-day.

The early days of a year are always a time of retrospection, of stock-taking, of comparison and of making high resolve for the future. Never in history has there been such a national stock-taking as that now going on. Six of the world's greatest powers and many smaller ones are anxiously balancing the losses and gains of the last two years and examining their resources to ascertain how long they may yet sustain the struggle that will decide their fates.

AT the close of the War against the Kebellion, the State of Ohio had in the National service two hundred regiments of all arms.

This book contains extract copies of documents relating to the Franco-German war of 1870 taken from the School Library.

The first edition of this catalogue was published in 1897, the second edition 1899, and the supplement to the second edition 1904.

It is probable that when the terrific storm, which is now blowing through almost every country of the world, has subsided, and when we experience the full results of a cataclysm so unparalleled, the movement of the European mind during the war may become a subject of philosophic curiosity.

When Volume XVI. was in press, it was known to the editor that some rolls of soldiers and other important documents relating to the service performed by New Hampshire in the Revolution, of which this State had no duplicates, were on deposit in the Department of State and in the Pension Bureau of the Department of the Interior, at Washington.

This volume contains the rolls of the soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War from this state from the beginning of that memorable struggle to May, 1777 so far as the same are in the possession of the state, or could be procured elsewhere by the editor.

The cause of a war and the object of a war are not necessarily the same.The cause of this war was the invasion of Luxemburg and Belgium.

For our schools the present crisis brings new opportunities and added responsibilities.

The Florida war comprises lists of soldiers of the United States army who lost their lives in the second Seminole war, 1836-1842.

The original intention, with which the leading articles of the present collection were undertaken, was to elicit some of the lessons derivable from the war between the United States and Spain.