Quadrennial Defense Review: Opportunities to Improve the Next Review: Report to Congressional Requesters

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...information about a rich country, more than twice the sze of France, with mLlions of inhabitants, now withlu the spt ere of British inSaen. 'THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK OF ITS KIND THAT HAS APPEARED SINCE IN DARKEST AFRICA.'--National Obsebveb, March7,1896. Eleventh Edition. Fullv Illustrated. Crown 8vo. price 2s. 6d. TEN YEARS' CAPTIVITY IN THE IYIAHDPS CAMP. From the Manuscripts of Father Joseph Ohrwaldeb. By Major F. R. Wingate, C.B., R.A. 'A book of very: n usual and manifold interest and value. In the first place, it is an interesting book to read; in the second, it is an historical document of the first importance; and in tbe th'rd, it has an extraordinary appesiteness at the p-esent moment.'--Saturday Review. By LIEUT. GREELY, the celebrated Arctic Explorer. HANDBOOK OF ARCTIC DISCOVERIES. With Portrait and Maps. Crown 8vo. 5s. The Graphic says: --'Th's useful handbook General Grecly Hoes not pretend to do more than set forth all the important Arotic discoveries, and he warns bis readers that they man nit look for namtivos in Iiis book, iuce ho has confined himself to what men have done rather than to how tbey did It. He emphatically combats the wide-spread Impression that ill Arot'c voyages have been made for practically the same purpife. Ho maintains that Polsr research has passed through three distinctive phases: first, for strictly commercial purpoeffi In connection wit1 trade to the Indies; second, for advancement of geographical knowledge; and third, for scientific Investigations connected with the physical sciences.' JOHN SHERMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS IN THE HOUSE, SENATE, AND CABINET: an Autobiography. Illustrated with numerous Pictures and Portrait, and also Facsimile Reproductions xl Letters. In...