Green cloth with gilt decorations on front cover & spine, foredges & bottom edges untrimmed, xiii, 365 pages. Hardcover. From the Preface: "This brief work brief work is an attempt to explain the influence which the mother country exerts upon colonies, and which colonies in turn exert upon the mother country--for good or evil. It is largely the result of personal observation in parts of the world controlled by the great colonizing powers. We Americans have now a Colonial Empire to administer, and we cannot afford to be indifferent to a matter which has in times past profoundly modified the constitution of nearly every great civilized nation." Includes chapters: How Spain Began to Colonize; The First Check to Spanish Colonization; The Development of South America; The Relations of Spain with Cuba and Manila Down to the End of the Nineteenth Century; The Totter and Tumble of Spain's Colonial Empire; Latter-Day Cuba; The Phillipines in Our Time; The Negro as an Element in Colonial Expansion; Official German Colonization; Colonial Portugal in Our Time; The First Years of Portuguese Greatness; The Colonial Break-Up of Portugal; Portugal in America; The Evolution of the Boer; The Dutch Colonist of To-Day; The Boer at Home; The Scandinavian Colonist; Some Notes on the Danish West Indies Made in Santa Cruz; The Spirit of France in the West Indies; The West Indies Two Hundred Years Ago; Colonial France To-Day; The Spread of Russia; The Beginnings of English Colonization in America; When American Were English; Why England Lost Her American Colonies; A Successful Tropical Republic in the West Indies; The West Indies To-Day and To-Morrow; Australasia; Can the White Man and His Wife Flourish in the Topics?" The White Invasion of China; The Philosophy of Colonization; The American as a Colonist