The Mobilisation of the English Army—Troops marching 139 through the Dock Gates, Portsmouth, Reserve Men served with the New Magazine-Rifle, and off 143 to the front to-morrow, Reading the Mobilisation Order, 145 Declaration of War against Russia from the Steps of the 149 Royal Exchange, Calling Out the Volunteers—Parade of the Signallers of 155 the St. Martin’s Le Grand Corps, Our Correspondent at the Battle of Vaux Champagne, 180 The Battle of Machault: The German Cavalry charging the 186 Rallying Squares of the French, The Taking of Vladivostock: Goorkas Protecting the Guns, 197 British Transports passing the Dardanelles: Fort Chanak 202 saluting the English Ships, The Sultan, Lord Wolseley, and Sir Clare Ford watching 205 the Passage of the British Fleet through the Bosphorus from the Steps of the Dolma Baghtche Palace, German Cavalry Attack by Night on the French Bivouacs, 220 Scene in the Streets of Rheims: German Troops clearing 222 the Streets of French Rioters, The Battle of Kosluji: Sir Evelyn Wood’s Attack on the 238 Russian Forces, Map of the Fight near Varna, 239 Scene outside Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo: Tommy Atkins 243 about to quit Egypt, Soudanese Attack upon a Reconnoitring Party, 254 French Cavalry charging the Prussian Infantry, 270 Our New Route to India: A Sleeping-Car on the Canadian 283 Pacific Railway, Tommy Atkins bargaining with the Indians on the Canadian 285 Pacific Railway, Our New Route to India: Rations on the Canadian and 286 Pacific Railway, Sir Charles Tupper in his Private Office in Victoria 300 Street, Westminster, The Right Hon. Sir Charles Dilke, 304 THE GREAT WAR OF 189— A FORECAST. In the following narrative an attempt is made to forecast the course of events preliminary and incidental to the Great War which, in the opinion of military and political experts, will probably occur in the immediate future. The writers, who are well-known authorities on international politics and strategy, have striven to derive material for their description of the conflict from the best sources, to conceive the most probable campaigns and acts of policy, and generally to give to their work the verisimilitude and actuality of real warfare. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRINCE FERDINAND OF BULGARIA. FULL ACCOUNT OF THE MURDEROUS ASSAULT; CRITICAL CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED PRINCE.