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NEE ©ur War in Two Hemispheres. The Complete History of the Spanish-American Struggle. ALBERT SHaw, Ph.D., Editor. Published by the Review of Reviews Company. Many creditable histories of tho actions of the Spanish war have beon and will be published, describing particular parts of the struggle. Tho history vow being published by the Roview of Reviews Company is the one comprehensive work undertaken to give a broad bistory and discussion of Spain's empire in North America; of her particular struggle in Cuba; of its cul- mination in tho declaration of war by the United States last April; of every action and notable participant in that struggle, in both tho Atlantic'and Pacific and in Cuba; of the lessons we learned in military organi- zation, and of the conditions of the islands which Spain has lost, The scores of subjects, technical or special, which are included in this work havo been treated by special contributors selected by Dr. Albert Shaw, the editor of the AMextcan MonTHLy Review op Revrews and of this volume, in this way only could such a broadly coneoived work be prepared adequately 80 quickly after the cossation of hostilities, A Galier> of Illustrations. 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