Macmillan, T: Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year 1890 (

Excerpt from The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year 1890

The yearly numbers of our curiosity shop for 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885. 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, and this one for 1890 are all stereotyped, and numbers for any or all of the years indicated can, therefore, be obtained upon application to the inter ocean.

Attention is directed to some of the special features of this volume. As is well known, the volumes of our curiosity shop contain no duplicate} articles. All information, what ever its character, is, therefore, entirely free from repetition. This book is at once a compen dium of the history of the year and a statistical reference. Its tables of rulers, compilations of land grants to railroads, information of the day as to telegraphs and railways, to religious and philosophic subjects, its histories of the several States and United States, of the life-saving service of various lands, of legislation generally and regarding pensions particularly, of the development of the country, of the wealth of its citizens, with the latest information on the great problems of the age, religious, scientific, political, disturbing the European nations these are all here and all that tends to throw light upon them. The continents of Africa and Asia have held the attention and directed the diplomacy of Europe during the year 1890, and Stanley's explorations and the relations of Great Britain, Germany, France, and Portugal to the Dark Continent are clearly epitomized, forming a most interesting and important chapter in modern history. The great revolutions in South America have special articles devoted to them, while the discoveries made m other parts of North and South America as well as in the isles of the sea, all teem with lessons to the reader that will not find their way into the ordi nary histories or books of reference for many years. The biographical sketches have been con cisely prepared, and contain in broad outlines the careers of those to whom they refer.

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