The story of the Philippines : the Eldorado of the Orient : natural riches, industrial resources, statistics of productions, commerce and population : the laws, habits, customs, scenery, and conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies, and the thousand islands of the archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, with episodes of their early history : personal character sketches of and intereviews and Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila : history and romance, tragedies and traditions of our Pacific possessions : events of the war in the west with Spain, and the conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico
"Splendidly and picturesquely illustrated with half-tone engravings from photographs, etchings from special drawings, and the military maps of the Philippines, prepared by the War Department of the United States."
Plates printed on both sides.
Issued simultaneously also under title "Our new possessions."