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A booklet written using simplified spelling; Base ball; The metafysics of base ball; The eye; Batting; The batting slump; The winning streak; The losing streak; The pitcher; The batting rally; The infield; The outfield; The catcher; The ball; The manager; Social relations of the players; The umpire; Superstition; Luck, accident, chance; The passions; The bleachers; The mechanics of base ball; The science of base ball

"These two volumes cover the era, roughly, from 1880-1915"

Prefatory; Introductory; Perth to Kingussie; Kingussie to Cluny Castle; At Cluny Castle; American and British railways; Cheap carriage rates; Free trade in railways; Socialism in America; Skilled and unskilled labour; Land nationalisation; Every man his own landlord; Free versus fair trade; The workman in America; Emigration to Canada and the States; Republican v. monarchial institutions; Old and new abuses; The land question once more; Socialism and progress; Social evolution; Individualism; Hours of labour in America; Strikes; The eight hours day; Trade union action and legislation; A general eight hours law; The limits of state interference; The knights of labour; Skilled and unskilled labour; The reward of labour; Heroes who have failed; Mr. Gladstone and home rule; Mr. Carnegie's scheme of home rule; A delightful drive

Carnegie's reflections on the operations of the Pennsylvania freight railway system; Title from cover; Reprinted from 'Century Magazine,' March, 1908

Cover title: Round the World. Signed by the author (Andrew Carnegie); Carnegie chronicles his journey around the world.

Reprinted with permission from the Century magazine, June, 1910;

A plea for alphabetic reform; The un-Alphabetic representation of English; A scientific alphabet based on the Roman letters; Alphabetic restoration; Summary of the additional signs for a complete English alphabet; The sounds of English speech, in orderly sequence, constitute the English alphabet; The consonants of English speech; Historical attempts at phonetic reform; The alphabetic problem solved; Scientific English alphabet for printing and writing; Abou Ben Adhem; Roolz ov lif

L'apôtre Barés; Pour la simplificacion ortografique; Les adversaires de la simplificacion -- Réponses à leurs ataques; Le programe de simplificacion ortografique; Le mouvement réformiste -- Vœus des Amicales et des Congrès; Le Programe de réformes de M. Barès; Les Idées de M. Barés; Apel aus Instituteurs

Wealth; Labor; Wages; Thrift; The land; Individualism versus socialism; Variety versus uniformity; Family relations; The long march upward; My experience with railway rates and rebates

Second edition.