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September 26, 1870, married, 1898, the Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg, and has two sons, Crown Prince Frederick, born March 11, 1899, and Knud, born July 27, 1. 00.

The King's brothers and sisters are:

1. The King of Norway, Haakon; born 1872, married, 1896, the Princess Maud Alexandra of Great Britain and Ireland, and has one son, Olaf, born 1903. 2. Harald, Prince of Denmark, born 1876, married, 1909, Princess Helena, Duchess of Sonderborg-Glücksborg; offspring, Princess Feodora, born 1910, and Princess Caroline Mathilde, born 1912. 3. Ingeborg, born 1878; married, 1897, Prince Charles of Sweden. 4. Thyra, born 1880. 5. Gustav, born 1887. 6. Dagmar, born 1890. The King's mother is the Dowager Queen of Denmark; married, 1869, the late King Frederick VIII. of Denmark. She was born, 1851, as the Princess Louise of Sweden, daughter of King Charles XV. of Sweden and Norway.

The King's uncles and aunts are: 1. The ex-Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (Alexandra), born 1844; married 1863, and has four living children, one being the King of England. 2. Prince Christian Wilhelm, born 1845, ascended the throne of Greece as King George I. in 1863. Assassinated in March, 1913. 3. The Dowager Empress of Russia (Dagmar), born 1847; married the late Czar Alexander III. in 1866, and has four children, one being the present Czar. 4. The Duchess of Cumberland (Thyra), born 1853; married the present Duke of Cumberland (English title), son of the exKing of Hanover, in 1878, has four living children, the only son being the reigning Duke of Brus wick-Limeberg. 5. Prince Valdemar, born 1858; married, 1885, the Princess Marie of Orleans (died 1909), daughter of the Duke of Chartres, and has four sons and a daughter. He was offered the crown of Bulgaria in 1886, but declined. Prince Aage, the eldest son of Prince Waldemar, married the Countess Calvi di Bergolo, daughter of the late Italian minister to Denmark. By this marriage he renounced all right of succession to the throne for himself and heirs, the latter to be Counts or Countesses of Rosenborg. GERMANY.

William II., German Emperor and King of Prussia, was born January 27, 1859; succeeded his father, the Emperor Frederick III., June 15, 1888. He married the Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (born 1858), and has had issue:

1. Frederick William, Crown Prince, born May 6, 1882; married, June 6, 1905, to Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and has four sons, William Frederick, born July 4, 1906; Louis Ferdinand, born November 9, 1907; Hubert, born September 30, 1909, and Frederick, born December 19, 1911. 2. William Eitel- Frederick, born 1883, married, February 27, 1906, Princess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg. 3. Adalbert, born 1884, married in August, 1914, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. 4. August, born 1887, married his cousin, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, 1908; issue, one son, Alexander Ferdinand, born December 26, 1912. 5. Oscar, born 1888, married morganatically Countess Ina Marie von Bassewitz, August, 1914. 6. Joachim, born 1890. 7. Victoria Louise, born 1892, married May, 1913, to Prince Ernst August of Cumberland, Duke of Brunswick; issue, a son, Prince Ernest August, born March 18, 1914.

The Emperor's brother is Prince Henry, born 1862, and married, 1888, to his cousin, Princess Irene of Hesse, and has two sons; and the Emperor has four sisters. The sisters are:

1. Princess Charlotte, born 1860; married, 1878, to George, hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, and has one daughter. 2. Princess Victoria, born 1866; married, 1890, to Prince Adolph of Schaumburg-Lippe. 3. Princess Sophie, born 1870; married, 1889, to Constantine, King of Greece, and has 3 sons and 3 daughters. 4. Princess Margaret, born 1872; married, 1893, to Prince Frederick Charles of liesse, has 5 sous, a sixth, Prince Maximilian, having fallen on the batt efield in October, 1914.

The Emperor has an aunt, the Princess Louise, born 1838, widow of the late Grand Duke of Baden; and he has a number of cousins, descendants of the brothers and sisters of the Emperor William I. One of these is Princess Lorise, daughter of the late Prince Frederick Charles and wife of the British Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria. The reigning family is descended from Frederick of Hohenzollern, a German count in 980, and Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg, 164088, whose son became King of Prussia.

GREECE

Constantine 1., King of the Hellenes, born Aug. 2, 1868, succeeded his father, King George, on the assassination of the latter by a neurasthenic named Alexander Schinit at Salonica, March 18, 1913. King Constantine married, 1889, the Princess Sophie of Prussia, sister of the present German Emperor, They have three sons and three daughters. The eldest son is:

Prince Georgios, born 1890; unmarried. The other sons of the King are: Prince Alexandros, born 1893, and Prince Panlos, born 1901. The daughters are: Princess Helene, born 1896; Princess Irene, born 1904, and Princess Catherine, born 1913. The brothers and sisters of the King are:

1. Georgios, born 1869: married Princess Marie, only daughter of Prince Roland Bonaparte; offspring, Petros, born 1908; Eugenia, born 1910. 2. Nicolaos, born 1872; married Grand Duchess Helene Vladimirowna of Russia; offspring, Olga, born 1903; Elizabeth, born 1904; Marina, born 1906. 3. Maria, born 1876; married Grand Duke George Michailovitch of Russia; issue, 2 daughters. 4. Andreas, born 1882; married Princess Alice, daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg; offspring, Margaret, born 1905; Theodora, born 1906; Cecilia, born 1911. 5. Christophoros, born 1888.

ITALY.

Victor Emmanuel III., King of Italy, was born November 11, 1869, and is the only son of Humbert I., second King of United Italy, murdered by the Anarchist Bresci at Monza, July 29, 1900. He married, in 1896, Princess Elena, daughter of Nicholas, King of Montenegro, and has five children-Princess Yolanda, born June 1, 1901; Princess Mafalda, born November 19, 1902; Prince Humbert (heir-apparent), born September 15, 1904, and Princess Giovanna, born November 13, 1907, and Princess (unnamed), born December 26, 1914.

Emmanuel, Duke of Aosta, born 1869, eldest son of the late Prince Amedeo, married, 1895, Princess Elena of Orleans, daughter of the late Comte de Paris, and they have had issue two childrenAmedéo, born 1898, and Aimone, born 1900. The three remaining sons of the late Prince Amedéo are Victor, Count of Turin, born 1870; Luigi, Duke of Abruzzi, born 1873, and Humbert, Count of Salemi, born in 1889 of his second marriage with his niece, Princess Letitia, sister of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte.

The mother of the King is Dowager Queen Margherita, daughter of the late Prince Ferdinand of Savoy. She was born November 20, 1851, and married the late King, 1868.

The King's great aunt by marriage was the Princess Elizabeth, widow of the Duke of Genoa; she died August 14, 1912, and had a son (Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, married, 1883, Princess Isabella, daughter of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, and has four sons and two daughters) and a daughter, Marguerite, the latter being the late King Humbert's wife. The family is descended from the Counts of Savoy, who flourished in the eleventh century.

MONTENEGRO.

Nicholas I., born October 7, 1841, proclaimed Prince of Montenegro as successor to his uncle,

Danilo I., 1860. Assumed title of King 1910; married Milena Petrovna Vucotic, 1847. Children of the King are: 1. Princess Militza, born 1866, married, 1889, Russian Grand Duke Peter Nikolaievitch; 2. Princess Anastasia, born 1868, married. 1889, George, Duke of Leuchtenberg (marriage dissolved), married again, 1907, Russian Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch: 3 Prince Danilo Alexander, heir-apparent, born 1871, married, 1899, Princess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; 4. Princess Helena, born 1873, married, 1896, Victor Emmanuel III.. King of Italy: 5. Princess Anna, born 1874. married, 1897, Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg; 6. Prince Mirko, born 1879, married, 1902, Natalie Constantinovitch; offspring: Prince Michael, born 1908; Paul, born 1910; Prince Emanuel, born 1912. 7. Princess Xenia, born 1881; 8. Princess Vera, born 1887; 9. Prince Peter, born 1889. The supreme power has been retained in the family of Petrovic Njegos, descending collaterally, since Danilo Petrovic, who was proclaimed Vladika of Montenegro in 1697, liberated the country from the Turks.

NETHERLANDS.

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands and Princess of Orange-Nassau, born August 31, 1880, daughter of the late King William III. and Emma, daughter of Prince George Victor of WaldeckPyrmont. She married, February 7, 1901, Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; issue, Juliana Wilhelmina, born April 30, 1909, Princess of Orange.

The Queen's mother is the late Regent Queen Emma, whose regency lasted from the death of the late King, her husband, November 23, 1890, until the end of the minority of her daughter, August 31, 1898. This family, known as the House of Orange, is descended from the Princes of Orange, stadtholders during the Dutch Republic.

NORWAY.

Haakon VII., King of Norway, was before his election to the crown by the Norwegian people, in 1905, Prince Charles of Denmark. He is the second son of the late King Frederick VIII. of Denmark; was born August 3, 1872; married, 1896, Princess Maud, third daughter of the late King Edward VII. of Great Britain, and has one son, Olav, Crown Prince of Norway, born July 2, 1903.

RUMANIA.

Ferdinand, King of Rumania, born August 24, 1865, is the nephew of the late King Carol L. who died October 10, 1914. He married, in 1893, Princess Marie of saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and had issue as follows: 1. Charles (Carol), born 1893. 2. Elizabeth, born 1894. 3. Marie, boru 1900. 4. Nicolas, born 1903. 5. Ileana, born 1909. 6. Mircia, born 1913.

RUSSIA.

Nicholas II., Emperor of Russia, was born May 18, 1868, and succeeded his father, the late Emperor Alexander III., November 1, 1894. He is married to the Princess Alexandra Alice (Alix) daughter of Ludwig IV., Grand Duke of Hesse, and has four daughters and one son-Olga, born in 1895; Tatiana, born in 1897; Marie, born in 1899; Anastasia, born in 1901, and Alexis (the Czarevitch), born August 12, 1904.

The late Emperor Alexander III., born in 1845, married, in 1866, the Princess Dagmar, sister of the late King Christian IX. of Denmark, has issue two sons: 1. Nicholas, the present Emperor; 2. Grand Duke Michael, born December 4, 1878, and two daughters: 1. Grand Duchess Xenia, born 1875; married, 1894, her cousin, the Grand Duke Alexander; has six sous and one daughter; ånd 2. Grand Duchess Olga, born 1882, married to Prince Peter of Oldenburg. The uncles and aunts of the Emperor were:

1. Grand Duke Vladimir, born 1847; died 1909. He married, 1874, the Princess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and had three sons and one daughter: 1 Grand Duke Cyril, born in 1876; married. 1905, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and divorced wife of the Grand Duke of Hesse; offspring: Marie, born 1907, and Kira, born 1909. 2. Grand Duke Boris, born in 1877. 3. Andreas, born 1879. 4. Helene, born 1882; married, 1902, Nicolaos of Greece.

2. Grand Duke Alexis, High Admiral, born 1850. He was unmarried. Died November 14, 1908. 3. Grand Duchess Marie, born 1853; married the late Duke of Edinburgh, son of the late Queen Victoria. He died 1900.

4. Grand Duke Sergius, born 1857; married, 1884, Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Princess Alice of Englaud, Assassinated in 1905, He left no issue.

5. Grand Duke Paul, born 1860; married, 1889, Princess Alexandra of Greece. She died 1891, leaving a son, the Grand Duke Dimitri, born 1891, and a daughter, Marie, boru 1890, married, 1908, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, divorced 1914. In 1902 he contracted a morganatic marriage with Olga Valerianovna, now Countess Hohenfelsen.

A grand uncle, the Grand Duke Constantine, born 1827; died 1892; married, 1848, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, and had issue five children, the Grand Duke Nicholas, born 1850, being the eldest, and the Grand Duchess Olga, born 1851, the eldest daughter, being married to the late King of the Hellenes.

A second granduncle, the Grand Duke Nicholas, born 1831, died in 1891; married in 1856, the Princess Alexandra of Oldenburg, and had issue two sons, Grand Duke Nicholas, born 1856, married, 1907, Princess Anastasia, daughter of the present King of Montenegro, and sister of Queen Helene of Italy, and Grand Duke Peter, born 1864, married, in 1889, Militsa, sister of the preceding. The last granduncle of the Emperor, Grand Duke Michael, born 1832, died in 1909. He married, 1857, Princess Cecilia of Baden, and had issue six children, the eldest daughter, Anastasia, born 1860, being the widow of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and mother of the German Crown Princess Cecilia. The Grand Duchess Anastasia is now known as Grand Duchess Mikalovitsch. The Russian reigning family is descended in the female line from Michael Romanof, elected Czar in 1613, and in the male line from Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp, The members of the family for over two centuries, however, have married so generally into the German royal houses that the present Romanofs are practically, by blood, Germans; as much so as their kinsman, the head of the German Empire.

SAXONY.

Friederich August III., King of Saxony, born May 25, 1865, succeeded his father, King Georg, October 15, 1904. He married, in 1891, Princess Louise of Tuscany (marriage dissolved 1903). The King has three daughters and three sous, the Crown Prince being Georg, born 1893; Prince Friederich Christian, born 1893; Prince Ernst Heinrich, born 1896: Princess Margarethe, born in 1900; Princess Maria Alix, born 1901; Princess Anna Monica, born 1903.

The King has two sisters, Mathilde, born 1863, unmarried, and Maria Josepha, born 1867. married to the late Archduke Otto of Austria, and two brothers, Johann Georg, born 1869, married first to Duchess Isabella of Württemberg (died 1904), and in 1906 to Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon, and Max. born 1870, a priest in holy orders.

The royal house of Saxony is one of the oldest in Europe, having given an emperor to Germany as early as the beginning of the tenth century. The Elector of Saxony assumed the title of King in 1806, and was confirmed therein in 1815.

REIGNING FAMILIES-Continued,

SERVIA.

Peter I., King of Servia, born in Belgrade, 1844, son of Alexander Kara-Georgevitch, after the murier of King Alexander and Queen Draga, he was proclaimed King; ascended the throne, June 2, 1903. King Peter I. was married in 1883 to Princess Zorka of Montenegro, who died in 1890. He has two sons and a daughter-George (who renounced his right to the throne in 1909), Alexander and Helene. King Peter, owing to continued ill-health, has delegated full royal authority to his son Alexander for the purposes of government.

King Peter is descended from Karageorge Petrovitch, who was proclaimed Commander-in-Chief in Servia, but was murdered in 1817.

The King has one brother. Prince Arsène, born 1859; married, 1892, Aurora Demidoff (divorced 1896); offspring: Prince Paul, born April 15, 1893.

SPAIN.

Alfonso XIII., King of Spain, born May 17, 1886, nearly six months after the death of his father, Alfonso XII. His mother is Maria Christina, an Austrian princess. He married in 1906 the English Princess Victoria Eugenie, daughter of the late Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice (daughter of late Queen Victoria). He has four sons: Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias, heir to the Spanish throne, born the 10th of May, 1907; Prince Jaime, born on the 23d of June, 1908; Prince Juan, born June 20, 1913, and Prince Gonzalo, born October 24, 1914; and two daughters, Princess Beatrice, born June 22, 1909, and Princess Maria Christina, born December 12, 1911.

The King's sisters, Maria de las Mercedes, born September 11, 1880, married, February 14. 1901, Prince Carlos of Bourbon, son of Count Caserta; died October 17, 1904; issue: Alfonso, born 1901, and Isabel, born 1904; Infanta Maria Teresa, born 1882, and married to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, died on September 23, 1912, suddenly from the after effects of childbirth, leaving Issue: Luis Alfonso, born in 1906; José Eugenio, born in 1909. Prince Ferdinand remarried October 1. 1914, with Dona Maria Luisa Pie de Concha. This lady on her marriage was created Duchess of Talavera de la Reina, and given the courtesy title of Highness, by King Alfonso. Maria de las Mercedes, born in 1911, and Pilar, born September 5, 1912.

The King's aunts are the Infantas Isabel, born December 20, 1851, widow of the Count de Girgenti; Maria de la Paz, wife of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, and Eulalie, born February 12, 1864, wife of Prince Antoine of Orleans (marriage dissolved July, 1900).

The King's grandmother, ex-Queen Isabel, born in 1830, crowned 1833, abdicated 1870, died April 9, 1904. Her husband, the Infante Francis d'Assisi, born 1822, died in 1902,

The King's grandaunt, the Infanta Louisa, widow of the Duke of Montpensier (son of King Louis Philippe of France), now dead, was the mother of a son and three daughters: 1. The wife of the late Count of Paris and mother of the French pretender, the Duke of Orleans; 2. The late Queen Mercedes, wife of Alfonso XII., deceased: 3. The Infanta Christina, also deceased.

A second cousin of the King was Don Carlos, born 1848, the pretender to the Spanish throne, who died July 18, 1909, leaving a son, Prince Jaime, born 1870, the present pretender, and four daughters.

The Spanish reigning family are Bourbons, descendants of King Louis XIV. of France.

SWEDEN.

Gustaf V., King of Sweden, born June 16, 1858; son of Oscar II. and Sophie, Princess of Nassau, and great-grandson of Marshal Bernadotte. He married, 1881, the Princess Victoria of Baden, and has had three sons, the eldest of whom is the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, born 1882, who married, in 1905, Princess Margaret Victoria of Connaught, and has three sons and a daughter: Gustaf Adolf, boru 1906; Sigvard, born 1907; Bertil, born 1912; Princess Ingrid, born 1910. The King's other sons are: Prince Wilhelm, born 1884, and married, 1908, the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (issue one child, Prince Lennart, born 1909), divorced 1914, and Prince Eric, born 1889. The King has three brothers: Prince Oscar, born 1859, married Lady Ebba Munck, one of his mother's maids of honor, and relinquished his rights to the throne; Prince Carl, born 1861, and married, 1897, Princess Ingeborg, daughter of King Frederik of Denmark; offspring: Margaretha, born 1899; Martha, born 1901; Astrid, born 1905; Prince Carl, born 1911. Another brother is Prince Eugene, born 1865. The King has a cousin, Louise, married to the late King Frederik VIII of Denmark. The royal family comes from Napoleon's Marshal Bernadotte, a Frenchman, who was elected heir-apparent to the crown of Sweden in 1810 and became King in 1818.

WÜRTTEMBERG.

William II., King of Württemberg, born February 25, 1848, son of the late Prince Friedrich and of late Princess Katharine of Württemberg; ascended the throne on the death of Karl I., October 6, 1891. He married, 1877. Princess Marie of Waldeck, who died leaving a daughter, Pauline, born 1877, and married, 1898, Prince Friederich of Wied. The King married, second, Princess Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, by whom he has no children. As the King has no malé descendants, the heir-presumptive is his distant kinsman, Duke Albert, born 1865, married to the Archduchess Margareta, niece of the Emperor of Austria, who died in 1902, and has three sons and three daughters.

THE FRENCH PRETENDERS.

BONAPARTIST.

The

Of the Emperor Napoleon I. and his brothers Joseph and Louis, male issue is now extinct. Emperor's brothers Lucien and Jerôme are represented by the following living descendants, and they constitute the present Imperialist house of France:

Prince Victor Napoleon (of the house of Jerôme), born July 18, 1862, is the son of the late Prince Napoleon, who died March 18, 1891, and the Princess Clotilde, who died June 25, 1911, sister of the late King Humbert of Italy. The Prince has been recognized by his party as the undisputed head of the Bonaparte family. He lives in Brussels and in 1910 married Clementine, third daughter of Leopold I., King of Belgium. A daughter was born in 1912, and a son in 1914. His only brother, Prince Louis Napoleon, born 1864, is a General in the Russian Army, and is unmarried. His sister, Princess Letitia, born 1866, is the widow of Prince Amedeo of Italy, her own uncle, by whom she had a son, Prince Humbert, born 1889.

The late aunt of Prince Victor Napoleon, the Princess Mathilde, born 1820; married, 1840, Prince Demidoff of Russia; died in 1904 without children.

Prince Charles Napoleon, brother of the late Cardinal Bonaparte, who died February 12, 1899, was the last representative of the eldest son of Napoleon's brother Lucien, in the male line. He was born 1839, was married, and had two daughters-Marie, wife of Lieutenant Gotti, of the Italian Army, and Eugénie, unmarried. Te had three sisters, married respectively to the Marquis of Roccagiovine, Count Primoli and Prince Gabrelli, who have descendants.

Prince Roland Bonaparte is the only living male cousin of Prince Charles Napoleon. He is a son of the late Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte; was born 1858; married, 1880, the daughter of Blanc, one

THE FRENCH PRETENDERS—Continued,

of the proprietors of the Monte Carlo gambling-hell. His wife died in 1882, leaving him a daughter, who is married to Prince George of Greece, He has one sister, Jeanne, born 1861, and married to the Marquis de Villeneuve, who died in 1910.

Ex-Empress Eugénie, widow of Emperor Napoleon III, was a daughter of Count Cyprien de Montijo, a Spanish grandee, and was born May 5, 1826. She married 1853. Became a widow, 1873. Her only son, Prince Louis Napoleon, was killed in Zululand in 1879.

BOURBON-ORLEANIST.

Philippe, Duke of Orleans, born 1869, succeeded his father, the late Count of Paris, in 1894, as the head of the royal family of France. He married, in 1896, the Archduchess Marie-Dorothea, daughter of the Archduke Joseph, cousin of the Emperor of Austria His mother (still living) was the Spanish Infanta Louise of Montpensier, and he has one brother, the Duke of Montpensier, and four sistersPrincess Amelie, married the late King Charles of Portugal; Helena, married to the Duke of Aosta, nephew of the late King Humbert of Italy; Isabel, married to the Duke of Guise, son of the Duke of Chartres, and Louise, married to Prince Charles of Bourbon, grandson of King Ferdinand II., of Naples.

The only uncle of the Duke of Orleans, who died 1910, was the Duke of Chartres, born 1840, and married to a daughter of the Prince of Joinville. The issue are two daughters and two sons, the eldest son being Prince Henry, born 1867 (died at Saigon, Cochin-China, in 1901); the second, the Duke of Guise, who had issue three daughters and one son; the eldest daughter, Princess Marie, being married to Prince Waldemar of Denmark, and the second daughter, Princess Marguerite, being married (in 1896) to Patrice MacMahon, Duke of Magenta.

The granduncles of the Duke of Orleans (who were the sons of King Louis Philippe) are all dead. They were the Prince of Joinville, born 1818, died 1900, married to a daughter of Pedro I. of Brazil, and had one daughter who married the Duke of Chartres, and had one son, the Duke of Penthièvre, born 1845; Henry, Duke of Aumale, born 1822, died (childless) 1897; Anthony, Duke of Montpensier, born 1824, died 1890 (married, 1846, a sister of Queen Isabel of Spain, and had a daughter, the wife of the Count of Paris, and a son, Prince Anthony, born 1866, who married, 1888, his cousin, the Infanta Eulalie of Spain), and Louis, Duke of Nemours, born 1814, died 1896. He was the father of two daughters, the Princess Crartoryska, deceased, and Princess Blanche of Orleans, and two sons, the eldest being the Count of Eu, born 1842, married to a daughter of Pedro II. of Brazil, and having three children, and the second the Duke of Alençon, born 1844, and married to a Bavarian princess (who was burned in the Paris bazaar fire in 1897), and having two children. By the death of the Count of Chambord, in 1883, the elder line of the Bourbons of France became extinct, and the right of succession merged in the Count of Paris, grandson of King Louis Philippe, representative of the younger, or Orleans, line.

THE CHINA SOCIETY OF AMERICA.

The object of this society is to promote, foster and perpetuate the friendly relations between the United States and China and to disseminate among the American and Chinese people, each to the other, a correct knowledge of the ideals, culture and progress of the two nations. Seaman,

The officers are: Honorary President-Andrew D. White. President-Louis L. 247 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Vice-President-Henry Clews. Secretary-Hua-Chuen Mei, 457 West 123d Street, New York City. Treasurer-Walter B. Tufts, 94 John Street, New York City. Chairman-Andrew B. Humphrey, 31 Nassau Street, New York City. The Board of Directors are: Andrew B. Humphrey, Hua-Chuen Mei, Walter B. Tufts, William C. Demorest, Robert C. Morris, Louis L. Seaman, John A. Stewart, Guy Van Amringe and William H. Washington.

THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE.

The Federation of French Alliances in the United States and Canada number 150 groups. The officers of the Federation are: Honorary President-J. J. Jusserand, French Ambassador. PresidentJ. Le Roy White, Baltimore. Vice-Presidents-M. Alexander, T. Mason, New York; Z. P. Brosseau, Chicago, Ill.; G. Desaulniers, Montreal; A. Legallet, San Francisco, Cal.; B. E. Young, Nashville, Tenn. Secretary-M. Louis Delamarre. Treasurer-M. T. Tileston Wells. Board of Directos-L Baldwin, Jonathan Godfrey, R. L. Sanderson, Charles L. Palms, William H. Perkins, Hugh A Smith, Camille Thurwanger, Fabre-Surveyer, Chas. Downer, and Samuel Boyle. Office, 147 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

NATIONAL CERMAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE.

Founded June 19, 1900. Incorporated by act of Congress, February 25, 1907.

President-Dr. C. J. Hexamer, Philadelphia, Pa. Vice-Presidents-Joseph Keller, Indianapolis, Ind.; John Tjarks, Baltimore, Md.; Julius Moersch, St. Paul, Minn.; John Hermann, San Francisco, Cal.; John Schwaab, Cincinnati, Ohio: A. P. Scheurman, Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. Leo Stern, Milwaukee, Wis.; Dr. F. H. Dammasch, Portland, Ore. Treasurer-Gottlob Hammer, Philadelphia, Pa. Secretary-Adolph Timm, Philadelphia, Pa. Financial Secretary-Hermann Weder, Philadelphia, Pa. Headquarters, 419 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. A. Godsho, Manager.

CONCERNING THE BRITISH EMPIRE ON OPPOSITE PACE. Estimates of area and present population are by Whitaker. The entire population of the empire, according to the estimates of Whitaker, is 434, 286,650, and the total area 13,153,712 square miles, of which 121,512 are in Europe, 2,187,550 in Asia, 3,618,245 in Africa, 3, 893,020 in North America, 8,600 in Central America, 12, 300 in the West Indies, 97,800 in South America, and 3,214,685 in Australasia.

POPULATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM BY SUCCESSIVE CENSUSES.

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Subject to changes arising from losses or conquests incidental to the war. † Uninhabited.

Treaty cession..

1893-1906

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