Since I have mentioned Mr. Poultney Bigelow let mo say that he has come home from Key West only to get a few days for preparation for a commission to Manila. He has a commission to the Philippine Islands from Messrs. Harper Brothers, of New York, for whom he will write not merely accounts of War and Conquest, but particulars of the condition of the islands, their resources and. their future prospects, in view of what fate may be in store for them as the final outcome of the, War; and when he comes back we shall.-have his book on the subject, just as we have had his book on White' Man's Africa.since he went to the Transvaal and the Orange State and Rhodesia for the Harpers.
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