The pictures are not all horrible.

Each book refers to a different country.

That one contains illustrations of modern civilization in Germany, for instance.

That one is France; that, British India.

Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, theatre of manhood suffrage, kingless and lordless land of Protection, Republicanism, and the realized Radical Programme, where all the black chattel slaves were turned into wage-slaves (like my father's white fellows) at a cost of 800,000 lives and wealth incalculable.
You and I are paupers in comparison with the great capitalists of that country, where the laborers fight for bones with the Chinamen, like dogs.