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The British Lien's Restless Breed
Restless te realize all the blessings of their united greatness and
their individual equality a restlessness of growth and readjust
ment, transforming a vast -Empire into a world-wide Common
wealth of Free Nations. When did this great change begin?
Hew was America responsible for its beginning? In what way
did Canada hasten it? And Ireland? By what steps and through
what difficulties is the process continuing? What important
steps remain te be taken? Shall America hinder or help?
Canada, the Land of Potentialities
Hew tlees Canada compare with the ancient Reman Empire? With
the British Isles? With the United States?
Hew may Canada determine the future destiny of the world com
monwealth of Greater Britain?
Under what circumstances did the close friendship between the
United States and Canada begin, and what is its special
significance?
Hew have the physical characteristics of Canada affected the devel
opment of her national life?
What are the fabulous natural resources of the Dominion?
"Old Ireland" the New
When and hew did the "rebirth of the Gael" begin, and hew did it
result in the Irish Free State?
What was at the root of Ireland's trouble with England?
What is the "peculiar cultural and spiritual ancestry" of the Irish
people?
What is the Irish attitude toward death?
What was the Irish Republican Army really like ; and what are the
facts from both points of view regarding the Sinn Fein?
Of what importance is the Irish Free State as an economic factor
in the world?
What is the effect of the new Agreement en Ulster?
India, Seething With Unrest
Will India break away from the British Commonwealth and become
an independent Moslem state; will the Mehammedans restore
the Sultan of Turkey te his former power; or will India remain
as a dazzling jewel in the British crown?
What is the wonderful story of this land of extremes, this home of
one of the eldest civilizations in history, this "motherland of
religion"?
What are the most marked causes of the great unrest and dis
content? America's Attitude Toward
Great Britain
Why have some papers been declaring that war between America
and Great Britain "is inevitable," while ethers insist that we arc
"entering an era of mere friendly relations than ever"?
What is the prevailing American opinion, and upon what is it based?
Should the United States "share with Great Britain the burdens of
the world as a whole"?
Hew will the rivalry between the British Commonwealth and the
American Commonwealth for world trade be carried en, and
with what result?
THE BIG STORY OF A GIANT
EMPIRE CHANGING TO A
DEMOCRATIC COMMONWEALTH
Told in the Special British Commonwealth Number
of The Literary Digest
OUT TO-DAY
Australia, the Real Land
of the Gelden Fleece
Bases of British Strength
With all its wealth, natural resources, financial strength and means
of defense en land and sea, hew is England kept from starving?
Hew are the products of the British Empire related te the life of
the rest of the world?
Hew is British naval supremacy affected by the Washington agree
ment? Where have the sons of Britain been going for the past 200 years,
and with what effect upon the motherland?
British Character, Culture and Life
Frem what "hated enemy" is the dominant strain of English bleed
traced?
What are the natural characteristics of the people and their attitude
toward war?
What is their notion of private rights, and hew docs it affect their
government?
What contradictory things are found in their character and temper,
and what general principle accounts for them?
Hew is the growth of democracy changing the British people?
Egypt Under the British Regime
What modern wonders in Egypt compare, for greatness, with the
ancient pyramids and the ruins of Luxor?
What has Britain been doing for the last forty years in Lewer Egypt
and along the Upper Nile?
Hew has Egypt developed; what is the present condition of h,er
people, and when did the new Egyptian "nationalist move
ment" become militant?
The eldest continent en earth; larger than the United States;
nearly as big as all Europe; a land of wonders and mysteries;
surpassing all peoples in the world in per capita wealth and
productive power; ninety-seven per cent of her people of pure
British descent; a laboratory of political experiments what is
the relation of Australia te the British Crown, hew is the
country governed, what are her political problems, and what
is her place in the economic program of the world?
New Zealand First
Did you knew that New Zealand was the first country in the world
te make compulsory the conciliation and arbitration of indus
trial disputes? That it was the first country te establish uni
versal penny postage, state fire insurance, state maternity
homes, non-contributing old-age pensions, and many ether
social and economic reforms?
De you want te knew all about this remarkable country of which
Bryce declares that "nowhere is the' level of comfort higher;
there are no millionaires, very few rich persons, and no class
of people is sunk anywhere near te the margin of subsistence"?
Changing Tides in Seuth Africa
What marvelous transformation in Seuth Africa has brought about
"one of the most dramatic chapters in the modem history of the
British Empire"?
What caused the Beers, who fought arainul the British in 1900 te
right for the British in 1915?
Hew did the Union of Seuth Africa become possible, and what
claim has it te distinction as "the only real democracy in the
world today"?
Why ih the color problem "the most serious question before the
people of Seuth Africa"?
What is the thrilling and picturesque Bteiy of the takin and
making of Khedesia? b
British Power in the West Indies
What special American significance has been found in the fact that
this chain of islands flanks the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean
Sea?
What aie the social, industiial. political and commercial character
istics and possibilities of these groups of several thousand
islands?
Is there a probability of an Imperial Federation of the Caribbean
Colenics under the leadership of Jamaica?
Wonderful Maps, in Celers, of the Far-Flung British Commonwealth
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