Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Reign of Queen Victoria, 1887, Vol. 1 of 2: A Survey of Fifty Years of Progress
The changes of which we speak will be described in con siderable detail in the ensuing chapters. But it may be convenient in these few preliminary pages to indicate some of the main lines of growth and expansion, of development and transformation, on which the United Kingdom and the Empire have proceeded during the half-century.
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