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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 40.
 The Jealousy of the Male Monopolist Anon
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Animals as Criminals Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Guglielmo Ferrero
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| Subjects: | Animal Behaviour, Soul, Crime, Anthropomorphism |
Notes that following on from the earlier debate over 'whether animals have souls' conducted by Anna Kingsford
Kingsford (née Bonus), Mrs Anna
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Darwin Against Wallace and Weismann. A Paper by Professor Romanes Anon
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"Is Life Worth Living?". "Yes, If —". By Professor James Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 64–65.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 67.
The North American Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 73.
"Borderland": New Series Anon
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 75–84.
The Book of the Month. Mr. Maitland's Life of Anna Kingsford, Apostle and Avenger Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Maitland 1896
Maitland,
Edward 1896. Anna Kingsford, Her Life, Letters, Diary and
Work, 2 vols, London: G. Redway
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| Subjects: | Supernaturalism, Psychical Research, Periodicals, Medical Practitioners, Gender, Vivisection, Soul, Mesmerism |
Notes that the more mystical elements of the book are dealt with 'at considerable length in the new number of Borderland
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View the register entry >>' (75). Describes how, when she was a young medical student in Paris, Anna Kingsford's
Kingsford (née Bonus), Mrs Anna
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View the register entry >> 'antipathy to vivisection became a consuming passion' (80). After various experiments with hypnotism, she also became convinced that one 'can kill with the will', and she came to believe that, in this way, she 'had slain Claude Bernard
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Bert, Paul
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View the register entry >>. He became very ill; but he recovered, and she died' (83). Also records that Kingsford 'proposed to Madame Blavatsky
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 90–92.
Our Monthly Parcel of Books Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Wells 1895c,
Wells, Herbert
George 1895c. The Stolen Bacillus: And Other Incidents,
London: Metheun & Co.
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Housman 1896
Housman,
Clemence 1896. The Were-Wolf, London: J. Lane at the Bodley
Head; Chicago: Way and Williams
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| Subjects: | Science Fiction, Invention, Imagination, Monstrosities |
Explains that in his works of science fiction Herbert G Wells's
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Issue [2] (February 1896) | Expand
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To All English-speaking Folk W T Stead, Hon. Sec. National Social Union
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View the register entry >> Genre: | Editorial | Subjects: | Steam-power, Electricity, War, Fear |
Pleads that all possible steps must be taken to avoid 'a fratricidal war between one hundred millions of English-speaking folk' on the two sides of the Atlantic (99), and warns that the 'shrinkage of the world beneath the potent hands of Electricity and Steam [...] render friction at many points inevitable in a constantly increasing ratio' (100).
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 102–13.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Imperialism, Disease, Sanitation |
Reports the successful completion of the British expedition to Coomassie in West Africa, but advises that it 'would be well if Mr. Chamberlain
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View the register entry >>. Every precaution was taken to guard the expedition against the attack of fever, but, notwithstanding the employment of all the resources of modern sanitary science, the fell disease smote more than one member of the expedition' (112).
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 144–48.
The Anglo-American Household. Some Notes of Family Jars, Past and Present Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Henry L Nelson
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, Harper's New Monthly Magazine
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| Subjects: | Natural Imperialism, Hunting, Extinction, Commerce |
Denies the charge made in the article that 'Canada, backed by England, is responsible for the extirpation of the seal in [the] Behring Sea', and instead insists that 'Nothing more opposed to our interest could hardly be imagined, for out of 142,000 seal skins taken, 138,000 are made up in London' (148).
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Musical Pictures Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Explains the 'fascinating [...] and extraordinary way in which musical notes make geometrical and other pictures', and directs readers interested in this 'astonishing [...] modus operandi' to a 'fully illustrated paper-covered volume
Hughes, Mrs
Watts [1891]. Voice Figures, London: Hazell, Watson, and
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Is Mankind Growing Same? Anon
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Is Cycling Bad for Women? What a Professor of Gynaecology Thinks Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 163.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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Sociology at Chicago Anon
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 175–76.
The New Photographic Marvel: The Röntgen Rays. Photographing Through Matter with Invisible Light Anon Genre: | Introduction; Reportage | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [2] | Subjects: | Wonder, Photography, Light, Electromagnetism, Ether, Physics, Nomenclature, Metallurgy, Medical Treatment, Theory | People mentioned: |
James C Maxwell,
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The brief introduction states that a 'scientific friend of mine has written at my request the following description' of the 'scientific sensation of the month': the 'final establishment [...] that it is possible to photograph objects without exposing the sensitive plate to the light'. Describes how 'a peculiar kind' of the cathode rays first produced by Phillip Lenard
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View the register entry >> to create 'shadow photographs' of objects such as coins that were at the time obscured by 'a volume of a thousand pages, [...] a pack of playing cards, an inch of fir plank or of vulcanised rubber, and—much less easily—through glass'. (175) These 'X-rays, as he designates them', have been used by Röntgen to discern 'internal flaws in metals', and, in addition, 'a Vienna surgeon
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View the register entry >> has located a grain of shot in a hand, and has successfully examined a fractured bone in a foot' (175–76). Insists, however, that although the 'discovery will undoubtedly lend itself to the most fruitful and wide application', its 'theoretical bearing is far more important' (176).
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 182–84.
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Romanes 1896
Romanes,
Ethel 1896. The Life and Letters of George John Romanes,
London: Longmans, Green
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| Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Religion, Gender |
Praises Ethel Romanes
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Issue [3] (March 1896) | Expand
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 229.
Electrical and Water Power Anon
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Nansen and the North Pole Anon
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Photographing the Unseen Anon
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 242.
Sixty Years of Progress. A Glowing Review of the Queen's Reign Anon
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The Winter Birds of New England Anon
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["Germinal Selection"] Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 252.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 255.
The Forum Anon
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The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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Anglo-American Reunion. International Response to the Appeal for Arbitration Anon Genre: | Editorial; Letter | Subjects: | War, Internationalism, Scientific Practitioners, Astronomy |
Reprints several letters from well-known supporters of the attempts at arbitration to prevent a war between Britain and America, including one from J Norman Lockyer
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View the register entry >> and many others I might name, and I am certain they feel as I do that war is unthinkable as between two members of the same family' (262).
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 277–80.
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Sully 1895,
Sully, James 1895.
Studies of Childhood, London: Longmans, Green
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Burnett 1895,
Burnett, James
Compton 1895. Delicate, Backward, Puny, and Stunted Children:
Their Developmental Defects, and Physical, Mental and Moral Peculiarities
Considered as Ailments Amenable to Treatment by Medicines, London: The
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Smith 1896
Smith, Gerard
1896. Our Growing Children: With Special Reference to the Physical Education
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| Subjects: | Human Development, Psychology, Disability, Disease |
Asserts that 'Nothing more important or more interesting to the ordinary reader has been published in the way of science for many months' than James Sully's
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Issue [4] (April 1896) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Mesmerism |
Notes that the passing of the Diseases of Animals Bill means that 'Foreign beef and mutton henceforth are not to enter Britain on four legs', which is a considerable 'gain to the cause of humanity' because it will put an end to 'the hideous horrors of the cattle-ships'. Observes, however, that the legislation will be 'naturally resented by the exporters across the Atlantic', and suggests that 'Some day, when it is possible to hypnotise cattle and sheep into insensibility for a fortnight, the prohibition may be reconsidered'. (298)
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 321.
Why the Nicaragua Canal Will Never be Made Anon
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British Guiana: Religion and Climate Anon
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Children as Humorists. Some Good Stories by Mr. Sully Anon
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 332.
The Worth of War Out-worn. A Study in Evolution Anon
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[Sketch of Lord Armstrong's Life] Anon
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[The Secret of Youth in Age] Anon
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The Problem of Domestic Service Viewed Scientifically Anon
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A Lady in West African Swamps Anon
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The Mysteries of Black Magic. Startling Story by a Pupil of Lord Lytton's Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 345.
[A Typewriter Made Ready for the Battlefield for the First Time in the History of Warfare] Anon
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Borderland Anon
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The Institute of France. The Celebration of Its Centenary G M M
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Traces the history and describes the current organisation of the five separate academies that make up the Institut National des Sciences et des Arts
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 374–76.
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Wells 1896
Wells, Herbert
George 1896. The Island of Doctor Moreau, London: William
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| Subjects: | Science Fiction, Monstrosities, Breeding, Sex |
Exclaims that 'No one admires the peculiar genius of Mr. Wells
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Imperialism, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Disease |
Reports that the 'rinderpest, which is sweeping its deadly way through the herds of the dominions, is necessitating stringent measures of pole-axe isolation' (387), and observes that 'the cattle disease will prove a far more miserable curse to South Africa then either the despotism of the Boers, the impatience of Dr. Jameson
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View the register entry >>, or the rebellion of the Matabele'. It has already necessitated the imposition of 'a strict quarantine blockade' along the frontier of the Transvaal. (388)
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 418.
The Deadly Lamp Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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| Subjects: | Accidents, Industrial Chemistry, Invention |
Discusses the alarming number of exploding oil-lamps, and notes that there is 'a good man in Newcastle who has invented a powder, which he maintains will render the oil absolutely non-explosive. He sent me the powder a long time ago to be tested, but I have not yet had time to attend to it. It would be interesting to know how far inventors have succeeded in rendering this useful illuminant free from danger'.
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"Wickedness is Man's Best Strength". A Blast Against the Monstrous Regimen of Virtue Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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| Subjects: | Philosophy, Ethics, Natural Law, Biology, Darwinism, Mental Illness |
Claims that Friedrich W Nietzsche
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A Dual Water Supply for Cities Anon
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Nursing and Stimulants. What the Temperance Hospital has Proved Anon
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Review of Reviews, 13 (1896), 436.
The Modern Pilgrim's Progress. The Story of Mr. Romanes's Conversion Anon
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Food and Labour Force: Is the Stomach the Best Savings Bank? Anon
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Professor Röntgen Interviewed Anon
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Plea for a Gigantic Geography of the British Isles Anon
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Horseless Carriages. A History and a Prophecy Anon
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