Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-09-03
A MASTER PRODUCTION.
Ridpath's History of the World is
Acknowledged by those Best .%3.
Qualified. e.
The Most Reliable and Most Read.
able General History Ever
Written. .

able General History Ever
Written. -.
1t represents a lifetime of conscien-
tious work by John Clark Ridpath,
Ii. D.. who ranks as n of the great
est historians of the nineteenth CEN
fury, and it tells the complete history
Of every one of the worlds nations,
great and small, since the dawn Of CIV
iiization.
1t is written in a style that appeals
to those who are anxious to combine
pleasure with proft-it is emphatically
a reading history, and not merely an
encyclopaedia Of dry facts
This Ridpath's history over is a thor
oughly common-sense proposition.
Here's a set of books that you ought
to have in your home. It's that
you'll value as long as you live. Tt
interests the children down to the
three-year-old that asks forty thous-
and questions about it's two thousand
attractive pictures. 1t will teach you
many things you don't know now, and
will enable you to look up all the
doubtful historical illusions that you
come across in your newspaper and
magazine reading. In fact, it will be
a household treasure.
You'll buy it some time, anyhow;
it's fast getting into all comfortably
well-to-do American homes. Here's
a chance to get it for half price. If
you let this opportunity slip you will
have to pay double the price. And
you can pay for it (if you like) at the
rate of 5 cents a day. Isn't it com
mon n to get it now?
The work comprises nine massive
volumes, the equivalent of fifty ordin-
airy books; the binding is an elegant
half Russia, and the set contains about
four thousand engravings, colored
time charts, colored race charts, gen.
ealogical diagrams, ETC., together with
an exhaustive index, which makes it
the best historical reference library in
| existence.
You will remember, of course, the
trouble we had with italy in 1891,
growing out of a difficulty in New Or
leans, when a number of Italians were
hanged by a mob. This thing, you
pcrocnohor oScr,rnod o. phorpoH;o,o
form; for a time, you recall, a war was
feared! This is all you remember.
Yet the occasion is frequently referred
to now, and you forget the details and
causes. DR.. Ridpath has graphically
described the whole affair. OF course
this is only a small matter. The PRES
ent volume contains the movements
of congress since the aforesaid year;
the introduction OF the Force bill; the
Mckinley bill; the Sherman bill; the
tariff and currency debates; the fuc-.
tuations OF popular opinion, etc, all
are detailed in such a name that
they become interesting. DR.. Ridpath,
you know, writes in a sort OF rhetori-
cal, yet informal, style. It is perfect
ly fascinating. Scholarly, yet not a
tedious page.
THE VALUE OF VOLUME NINE.
You remember, also, our difficulty
with Chill a few years ago, when the
sailors of the Baltimore were murdered
by a mob OF Gillian revolutionists.
The particulars of this whole affair
were rather complicated. Do you re-
member the exact circumstances:
Commodore Sehley Chen merely a cap
tain) commanded the vessel. This
trouble resolved itself into a diplomatic
communication, and was finally set
tled-you will remember-by a COM
plete apology from the Gillian gov
eminent. ,Dr. Ridpath's account of
tnis affair is most absorbing. Follow
ing these came the great labor upris-
ing in Homestead, and the terrible
strike in Buffalo. Each OF these held
the vital attention of the country dur
ing their progress. DR.. Ridpath re-
counts them faithfully, Analysing their
natures and the causes which gave
them rise " /.
Without doubt, the account Of the
great Columbian exposition Of 1892,
contained in this volume, is the most
complete and authentic record of the
great Worlds Fair in existence. So
too, the present volume contains the
great presidential conflict OF 1896. 81 Il
Following the course Of events,
comes the spanish-American war,
complete from beginning to end, and
SO we are brought step by step through
each important event from 1889 to the
summer OF the present year.
So much has happened during the
last few years, that it is scarcely
credible to the average American, who
reads the newspapers and forgets, how
interesting this final volume must matt
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