Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1899, by W. E. Scull, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. All Rights Reserved. LIST OF CHAPTERS AND SUBJECTS Introduction PAGE A Bird's-eye View--Tyranny and Oppression in the Eighteenth Century--Government and the Rights of Man in 1900--Prisons and Punishment in 1900--The Factory System and Oppression of the Workingman--Suffrage and Human Freedom--Criminal Law and Prison Discipline in 1800--The Era of Wonderful Inventions--The Fate of the Horse and the Sail--Education, Discovery and Commerce 23 CHAPTER I The Threshold of the Century The Age We Live in and its Great Events--True History and the Things Which Make It--Two of the World's Greatest Events--The Feudal System and Its Abuses--The Climax of Feudalism in France--The States General is Convened--The Fall of the Bastille--King and Queen Under the Guillotine--The Reign of Terror--The Wars of the French Revolution--Napoleon in Italy and Egypt--England as a Centre of Industry and Commerce--The Condition of the German States--Dissension in Italy and Decay in Spain--The Partition of Poland by the Robber Nations--Russia and Turkey 33 CHAPTER II Napoleon Bonaparte; The Man of Destiny A Remarkable and Wonderful Career--The Enemies and Friends of France--Movements of the Armies in Germany and Italy--Napoleon Crosses the Alps at St. Bernard Pass--The Situation in Italy--The Famous Field of Marengo--A Great Battle Lost and Won--The Result of the Victory of Marengo--Napoleon Returns to France--Moreau and the Great Battle of Hohenlinden--The Peace of Luneville--The Peace of Amiens--The Punishment of the Conspirators and the Assassination of the Duke d'Enghien--Napoleon Crowned Emperor of the French--The Great Works Devised By the New Emperor 44 CHAPTER III Europe in the Grasp of the Iron Hand