aker, 184
Telegraphing before Morse, 196
The New Light of Men, 205
The Telephone, 216
The Machine That Talks Back, 225
Evolution of the Dynamo, by Professor Joseph
P. Naylor, 235
The Unknown Ray and Entography, 244

STAGES IN BIOLOGICAL INQUIRY.

The New Inoculation, 256
Koch's Battle with the Invisible Enemy, 266
Achievements in Surgery, 276
GREAT RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS.
BY B.J. FERNIE, PH.D.

Defence on New Lines, 284
Evangelical Activity, 289
Bible Revision, 291
Bibles by the Million, 293
A Great Missionary Era, 296
Preaching to Heathen at Home, 299
Churches Drawing Together, 304
Organized Activities, 308
Humanitarian Work, 314
The Sunday School, 316
Pulpit and Press, 318

Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century.

Crises in Civil Society.

BRUMAIRE.

THE OVERTHROW OF THE FRENCH DIRECTORY.

The eighteenth century went out with the French Directory, and the
nineteenth came in with the Consulate. The coincidence of dates is not
exact by a year and a month and twenty-one days. But history does not
pay much attention to almanacs. In general our century arose with the
French Consulate. The Consulate was the most conspicuous political
fact of Europe in the year 1801; and the Consulate came in with
_Brumaire_.

"Brumaire" is one of the extraordinary names invented by the
French Revolutionists. The word, according to Carlyle, means
_Fogarious_--that is, Fog month. In the French Republican calendar,
devised by the astronomer Romme, in 1792, Brumaire began on the
twenty-second day of October and ended on the twentieth day of
November. It remained for Brumaire, and the eighteenth day of
Brumaire, of the year VIII, to extinguish the plural executive which
the French democrats had created under the name of a _Directory_, and
to substitute therefor the One Man that was coming