The International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress in Every Department of Human Knowledge for the Year 1898 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress in Every Department of Human Knowledge for the Year 1898

Another object which the authors of this volume have had in view has been to reflect the current discussion of the topics treated instead of giving a bare catalogue of events. Such discussion is as truly a part of the history of the year as the events themselves, and although the historical interpretation of events must be postponed for many years after their occurrence, a record of current opinion upon them has interest and value. For that reason, in treating such political topics as the colonial policy of the United States, the Fashoda affair, the Dreyfus case, the partition of China, the Behring Sea Dispute, the annexation of Hawaii, Currency Reform, the Nicaragua Canal, etc and other matters which, like Hypnotism, Spiritualism, Chris tian Science, etc., have occasioned controversy, the purpose has been to present a fair statement of Opposing views.

A work intended to fulfil the double ofice of a Year Book and a Cyclopedia appendix must necessarily include many lines of statistics, for no other department of a reference book falls so quickly behind the times. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to explain the inclusion of statistics in certain cases for years previous to 1898, since it is well known that many classes of statistics are not issued until long after the period of time to which they relate. It has been the aim of the editors in every case to include the latest figures which were available at the time of writing.

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