eminent contributors, T. Athol Joyce, M.A.. N.W. Thomas, M.A., Dr. Theodore Kock Grungerg, Archibald Ross Colquhoun, M.I.C.E., F.R.G.S., Miss Alice Werner, Annette M.B. Meakin, Prof. Otis T. Mason, R. Shelford, M.A., F.L.S., Clive Holland, Lady Ramsay, Lucy M.J. Garnett, Mary Edith Durham ; illustrated by magnificent plates in color from paintings made expressly for this work by Norman Hardy, and more then five hundred rare photographs taken by experts in every land