s at Corea. -- Services in
Arctic Waters. -- The Disaster at Samoa. -- The Attack on
the "Baltimore's" Men at Valparaiso. -- Loss of the
"Kearsarge." -- The Naval Review.

CHAPTER II.

The Naval Militia. -- A Volunteer Service which in Time of
War will be Effective. -- How Boys are trained for the Life
of a Sailor. -- Conditions of Enlistment in the Volunteer
Branch of the Service. -- The Work of the Seagoing Militia
in Summer.

CHAPTER III.

How the Navy has Grown. -- The Cost and Character of Our New
White Ships of War. -- Our Period of Naval Weakness and our
Advance to a Place among the Great Naval Powers. -- The New
Devices of Naval Warfare. -- The Torpedo, the Dynamite Gun,
and the Modern Rifle. -- Armor and its Possibilities.

_PART V._

THE NAVAL WAR WITH SPAIN.

CHAPTER I.

The State of Cuba. -- Pertinacity of the Revolutionists. --
Spain's Sacrifices and Failure. -- Spanish Barbarities. --
The Policy of Reconcentration. -- American Sympathy aroused.
-- The Struggle in Congress. -- The Assassination of the
"Maine." -- Report of the Commission. -- The Onward March to
Battle.

CHAPTER II.

The Opening Days of the War. -- The First Blow struck in the
Pacific. -- Dewey and his Fleet. -- The Battle at Manila. --
An Eye-witness' Story. -- Delay and Doubt in the East. --
Dull Times for the Blue-jackets. -- The Discovery of
Cervera. -- Hobson's Exploit. -- The Outlook.

CHAPTER III.

The Spanish Fleet makes a Dash from the Harbor. -- Its total
Destruction. -- Admiral Cervera a Prisoner. -- Great Spanish
Losses. -- American Fleet Loses but one Man.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOLUME ONE

Spilling Grog on the "Constitution" before going into
Action. _Frontispiece_.

Commodore Esek Hopkins.

Siege of Charleston, S.C., May, 1780.

Captain John Paul Jones quelling the Mob at Whitehaven,
Scotland, Nov., 1777.

The Action between the "Bon Homme Richard" and the
"Serapis," September 23, 1779.

Commodore Barry.

Shortening Sail on the "Lancaster"--The Oldest Cruiser in
Commission.

Commodore Decatur.

Derelict.

Cutting Away the Flag.

Commodore Perry.

Barney Regains his Ship.

Toasting the Wooden Walls of Columbia.

Commodore Macdonough.

Hull Ma