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" The New America and The Far East " INDIA By G. Waldo Browne and Nathan Haskell Dole Published By Marshall Jones Company Boston 1912 The title-page is undated. The only copyright date given is 1912. Hardcover. Half leather binding. Leather spine & corners over cloth boards. Top Page Edge Gilt. Marbled Endpapers. Original Cloth-reinforced Inner Hinges. 7.75" x 10.75" , xii + 178 Pages, plus Illustration Plates & Folding Maps 110 years old. Description & history of India A volume in a series of works on Asian countries and " New American Territories ." Illustrated with engravings and plates. 28 Full-Page Engravings plus 71 In-Text Illustrations ( from photographs ) plus Folding Map Condition Worn binding, with repair-work done. Wear at the binding edges. Loss of leather at the edges. Splitting in the leather has been carefully closed with Bookbinder's glue; the covers are firmly attached, and the hinges flex normally. [ see the photos ] The hinges are tight. No markings. No writing. The pages are clean and in very good condition. The Contents : India : Introduction by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart I. From Mountain to Sea II. The Gateway of India III. The Whirlwind of War IV. The Light of the Harem V. A Trinity of Races VI. India's " Sons of Liberty " VII. Indian Chivalry VIII. The East India Companies IX. The Anglo - Saxon Conquest X. The Passage of Power XI. Resource and Reality XII. Flora, Fauna and Famine XIII. The Wrath of the Goddess Kali XIV. The Many Capitals XV. Simla , Darjiling , Indian Farms , and the Deccan XVI. Storied Golconda XVII. From Throne to Threshold XVIII. Last but not Least List of Full-Page Engravings : 1. Tiger : The King of the Jungle ( photogravure ) 2. A Bull Cut out of Solid Rock , Mysore 3. Religious Shrines on and in the Solid Rock 4. Prisoners at Dinner, Bassein Jail , Burma 5. Ruins of Ferrah Bag , an Ancient Mohammedan ( Muslim ) Castle in Ahmadnager 6. Taj Mahal , Marble Mausoleum near Agra , India ( in color ) 7. Banyan Tree on Compound , Ramapatam 8. An Interesting Panorama 9. Golden Lily Tank , Madura 10. Fort at Sholapur , showing Double Walls and Ditch of Water 11. Remarkable Carvings in Living Rock 12. Toddy Man Drawing Toddy ( palm sap for making palm wine ) 13. Religious Fete 14. Tree Ferns in Garden of the Shrubbery , Darjiling , India ( in color ) 15. Golden Lily Tank 16. Teppakulum , Madura 17. Native Musicians 18. Munachee Temple , Madura 19. Golden Flag-staff , Madura 20. Caves Cut in Solid Rock 21. Elephants in Great Durbar , India ( in color ) 22. An example of Indian Art as shown in Stone Carvings 23. Modern Temple in Madura 24. Ax Indian Girl Burden Bearer 25. Sisel Hemp Plant , Sirur , Poona District 26. Main Canal of Bezwada ( South India ) 27. Rickla and Push Conveyance 28. Famine Sufferers , Madras 29. Folding Map : INDIA ( in Color ) List of the In-Text Illustrations : Indian Women Carrying Water from Well Lahore , Moslems ( Muslims ) Washing before Worship ( Islam ) Cape Comorin Karen Village on the Irrawaddy River Unsurmountable Cliff A Cooley Woman , Darjiling The Village Guardian - large carved statue Interior of Idol Maker's House Fording a River Row of Shrines about Kuthodaw , Pagoda Boat - building at Pakokku Clay Images, South India Benares, South India Date Palms on Compound, Rama-patam Small Hindu Temple under Rock at Vinukonda A Bridge in Madura Gifts Arriving at Palami Temple Banyan Tree Overgrowing Hindu Idol House Siva's Hill , Palami ( Palani ) Ooty Lake, Ootacamund Sudras with Village Magistrate in the Centre Yanadhi Huts and People, Rama-patam Scene During Rainy Season in Rangoon Yanadhi Huts , Ramapatam Ferry Across Buckingham Canal Peculiar Method of Carrying Baby , South India An Oil Mill A Group of Sudras, Podili Making Oil from Peanuts Railway Station , Madura Cocoanut Palms , Madura District Mail Train , Madura Brick Making , Madura Native Houses on the Mountain , Madura Market in the Nilgiri Hills , 8000 feet above Sea-level Bullock Coach, Kanigiri Girls High School Room View of Royal Lake, trom Dalhousee Park , Rangoon Hindu Children Picking Cotton Madura Mission , Boys at Industrial Work Karen Mission School Football Team Boys Harvesting Rice , Pasumalai Famine Children fed on " Prickly Pears " Fishing for Minnows Dalhousie Park , Rangoon Small Pagodas at base of Shive Dagon ( Shwedagon ) The Thousand Pillared Temple , Hanamakonda Travancore Breakwater A Hindu Sannyasi Lyixg on a Thin Cord as a Penance ; Passers-by Throw Alms on the Cloth underneath him An Ear Operation ; Cutting and Re-joining Lobe that has been Stitched by Heavy Earrings Ruins of the Thousand Pillared Temple Palace Arches, Madura Drill in the Playground Village Laundry , Madura District View of Queens' Garden , Rangoon Pond on Compound , Ramapatam Tennis as played in India by Natives Floating car Festival Tea Gardens , Nilgiri Hills Earthen Pots from Pottery to Market Threshing Floor Rice , Ixdian Staff of Life Christian College , Madras Buffaloes Public Gardens at Ootacamund Julca in Madras Ploughing with Water Buffaloes Ploughing , Ramapatam Hindu Boys Hoeing Irrigation Works, Pasumalai Tree Fern , Ootacamund Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.