J. L. B.

Boston, December, 1908.

CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I.The Country[13]
II.Its Resources[21]
III.History and Government[29]
IV.The Sultan, The Heart of Turkey[39]
V.Race Questions and Some of the Races[49]
VI.The Armenians[63]
VII.Moslem Peoples[71]
VIII.Turkey and the West[83]
IX.A Strategic Missionary Center[91]
X.Social, Moral and Religious Conditions[99]
XI.Christianity and Islam[111]
XII.Early Pioneering and Explorations[117]
XIII.Established Centers[135]
XIV.Beginnings in Reform[147]
XV.Leaders, Methods, and Anathemas[155]
XVI.Results[169]
XVII.Intellectual Renaissance[179]
XVIII.The Printing-Press[195]
XIX.Modern Medicine[205]
XX.Standing of Missionaries[211]
XXI.Completed Work[221]
XXII.Industrial and Religious Changes[231]
XXIII.American Rights[239]
XXIV.Religious Toleration[247]
XXV.The Macedonian Question[259]
XXVI.General Political Situation[265]
XXVII.Constitutional Government[273]
Index[289]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Galata and Pera and the bridge of boats connecting with Stamboul, Constantinople[Frontispiece]
A group of official Turks in prayer for the Sultan upon his birthday[42]
An Armenian Ecclesiastic[68]
A Koordish chief of Southern Koordistan[68]
A mountain village in Eastern Turkey[94]
The Bosporus, Constantinople[94]
Robert College, Constantinople[184]
Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria[184]
A class of native students, graduates from the American College for Girls, Constantinople[224]

The illustration on the front cover shows the ruins of the Arch of Constantine, Salonica, Macedonia.