Richemont_ 368
BISMARCK BEFORE PARIS, _Ludwig Braun_ 390

WOOD-ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES

COUNCIL OF WAR AFTER THE LANDING OF WILLIAM OF
ORANGE, _H. G. Glindoni_ 208
NEWTON ANALYZING THE RAY OF LIGHT, _Loudan_ 212
THE LIFE OF PETER THE GREAT SAVED AT
THE FOOT OF THE ALTAR, _Steuben_ 216
BURKE, JOHNSON, AND THEIR FRIENDS, _James E. Doyle_ 228
THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS TO
WASHINGTON, _Armand Dumaresq_ 246
ROBESPIERRE'S ARREST, _Francois Flameng_ 280
A. LINCOLN, 340
HAWARDEN CASTLE, THE HOME OF
GLADSTONE, _G. Montbard_ 378
GLADSTONE'S FIRST HOME RULE BILL, 382
PROCLAMATION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE AT
VERSAILLES, _Anton von Werner_ 386
PARNELL TESTIFYING AGAINST THE
"TIMES," _Walter Wilson_ 396
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY TAKING THE OATH OF
OFFICE, _A. de Thulstrup_ 402
THE CEREMONY AT GROVER CLEVELAND'S
MARRIAGE, _A. de Thulstrup_ 406

WILLIAM III. OF ENGLAND

(1650-1702)

[Illustration: William III. [TN]]

William, Prince of Orange, the third king of England of that name, born
November 14, 1650, was the posthumous son of William II., Prince of
Orange, and Mary Stuart, daughter of Charles I. of England. The fortunes
of his childhood did not promise that greatness which he attained. His
father had been thought to entertain designs hostile to the liberties of
the United Provinces, and the suspicions of the father produced distrust
of the son. When Cromwell dictated terms of peace to the Dutch in 1654,
one of the articles insisted on the perpetual exclusion of the Prince of
Orange from all the great offices formerly held by his family; and this
sentence of exclusion was confirmed, so far as Holland was concerned,
thirteen years after, by the enactment of the Perpetual Edict, by which
the office of Stadtholder of Holland was forever abolished. The
restoration of the Stuarts, however, was so far favorable to the
interests of the House of Orange, as to induce the princess-royal to
petition,