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[165] jump to Beyond the Rockies (1894), with A spring journey in California (1895) and some Cruising in the Caribbees the same year.

Albert Payson Terhune shows us Syria from the saddle (1896) with his customary virility; John Bell Bouton takes us Roundabout to Moscow (1887), where we instinctively think of George Kennan and his The Siberian exile system (1891) and follow him into Tent life in Siberia through two editions, 1871 and 1910. From there we run back On Canada's frontier (1892) with Julian Ralph, and then Down historic Waterways (1888) with Reuben Gold Thwaites, who also leads us On the storied Ohio (1897), after which he holds up the mirror to previous travellers in thirty-two volumes of Early Western travels (1904-06). If we are interested in botany, there is Bradford Torrey, who contributed to Reports on Western exploration, and wrote independently A Florida sketch Book (1894), Spring notes from Tennessee (1895), and Footing it in Franconia (1901).

The war with Spain landed the United States in the Philippines, clear across the wide western ocean, thus at last forging the final link in the chain stretching westward from Europe to Cathay, and proving ultimately Senator Benton's prophecy as he pointed towards the sunset and said: ‘There lies the road to India.’

The various islands of the Philippine group were occupied by different tribes in varying stages of progress, and it became the problem of the new governing power to give each protection from the other and an opportunity to develop. In carrying out this broad policy not only were schools established and towns remodelled, but battles were fought with such tribes as were recalcitrant and unruly like the wild Moros.

The literature which has grown out of all this effort is large and of vast importance civically, ethnologically, and politically, for it is the history of harmonizing antagonistic primitive groups, guiding them into proper channels of progress, and fitting them for eventual self government, a task never before set for itself by any conqueror; and a task which has led to impatience and misunderstanding not only among the warring tribes but among people at home who were ignorant of the situation. Arthur Judson Brown describes The New era in the Philippines (1903); James H. Blount asks (in The North American Review, 1907)

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