You are here
قراءة كتاب The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
| SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, | FEBRUARY 25, 1897 | Vol. 1. No. 16. |
| $2.50 PER YEAR | [Entered at Post Office, New York City, as second-class matter] |
School Books Wanted
The following school books will be taken in exchange for subscriptions for "Great Round World" at prices named.
Send books by express prepaid. Send none which are much soiled or worn; pages must not be torn nor missing. Mark package—"Great Round World, 3 and 5 West 18th Street, New York City, care William Beverley Harison."
Put your name on package and send a list by mail with your subscription order.
We can use Standard School Books of all kinds, send List of any you may wish to dispose of.
READERS
| Barnes' | First, | 20c. | Second, | 30c. | Third, | 40c. |
| Appleton's | " | 15c. | " | 25c. | " | 30c. |
| Cyr' | " | 20c. | " | 25c. | " | 30c. |
| New Franklin | " | 20c. | " | 30c. | " | 35c. |
| McGuffey's Revised | " | 15c. | " | 25c. | " | 30c. |
| Stickney's | " | 10c. | " | 15c. | " | 20c. |
| Swinton's | " | 20c. | " | 30c. | " | 40c. |
| Information | " | 30c. | " | 30c. | " | 30c. |
HISTORIES, UNITED STATES
| Barnes' | Primary, 40c. | Large 1890 or later, | 75c. |
| Eggleston's | First Book, 40c. | " | 75c. |
| Fiske's | " | 75c. | |
| Johnston's | Shorter, 40c. | " | 75c. |
| Montgomery's | Beginner's, 30c. | " | 75c. |
| Sheldon's | " | 50c. | |
| Thomas' | " | 50c. |
To the Subscribers of "Current Events":
I take pleasure in announcing that I have purchased the entire subscription list and good will of Current Events, and offer you in its stead The Great Round World, a weekly newspaper for boys and girls.
You will receive one number of The Great Round World for each number of Current Events due you on your subscription. I make the special offer, to send you The Great Round World every week until December 31st, 1897, if you will remit the sum of $1.25 at once.
My regular subscription price is $2.50.
If there is any special feature or department of Current Events which the majority of the subscribers would like to have continued, I will take great pleasure in arranging for it, and I trust that you may find The Great Round World a satisfactory substitute for Current Events.
William Beverley Harison.
Copyrighted 1897, By William Beverley Harison.
Vol. 1 February 25, 1897. No. 16
There does not seem to be any prospect of a settlement of the Turkish troubles.
The various European powers have called the Sultan to account for the massacres in Armenia, and laid out a system of reforms, which they think should be made.
But this is as far as they have got.
"You may lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink." The various powers of Europe are learning that this is a very true saying.
They have decided upon the reforms that Turkey ought to make, but they are as puzzled as they can be to know how they are going to make the Sultan order these reforms.
Germany, France, Italy, Austria, England, and Russia have been discussing the matter for weeks.
They have been saying among themselves, "What on earth are we going to do if Turkey flatly refuses to make any reforms at all?"
This is the European conundrum.
The consequence is, that the full list of reforms has not yet been given to the Sultan.
All the powers are feeling that it is of no use to tell him what they insist shall be done, until these same powers have made up their minds what they are going to do, if he tells them all to go away and mind their own business.
England suggests that, if the Sultan refuses, they shall call out their soldiers and sailors, and fight him till they