VI Compound Fireworks (_continued_) 131 VII Firework Compositions 136 VIII Modern Firework Compositions 144 IX Military Pyrotechny 152 X Military Pyrotechny in the Great War 164 XI The Civil Use of Fireworks 175 List of the Principal Ingredients used in Pyrotechny at the present time 181 Pyrotechnic Bibliography 182 Index 187 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _To face page_ Firework Display at Quebec. From a drawing by C. M. Padday _Frontispiece_ Six Coloured Japanese Prints of Fireworks manufactured by Messrs. Hirayama of Yokohama 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 Facsimile Title Page of John Bate’s “Second Booke,” 1635 16 A Display of the Earliest Type (_c._ 1650) 18 Set Piece of the Scenic Type 20 Firework Display at Nuremberg, 1650 22 Great Firework Display near Stockholm, 1669 24 Fireworks on the Thames, 1688 28 Firework Display given by the Duke of Richmond, 1749 30 Firework Temple at Vauxhall, 1845 36 Fireworks at Versailles, 1855, from a drawing by Gustav Doré 44 The Grand Whim for Posterity to laugh at, 1749 46 A Full-size Picture of the Jumma Musjid in Fireworks at } the Crystal Palace, 1892 } Firework Display for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi, } 50 January 3rd, 1903 } A Crystal Palace Set Piece at the time of the South African War 52 Panorama of the Aerial Effects in the National Display at Hyde Park, 1919 56 The Explosion at Madame Cotton’s Firework Factory, 1858 66 Programme of Experiments with Fireworks at Nunhead, 1872 68 Modern Firework Tools 72 Types of Modern Fireworks 90 Cracker Making 92 Rocket Manufacture, from Frézier’s “Feu d’Artifice,” 1747 94 Manner of making and representing Flowers, etc., in the Chinese Fireworks, from the “Universal Magazine” of 1764 100