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Issue [1] (January 1897) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 2–7.
 The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Industrial Chemistry, Patronage, Discovery |
Notes that the late 'Alfred Nobel
Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 15–30.
Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. I.—From Republicanism to Monarchy
[1/6]Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. IV.—The Queen as Head of the Church', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 321–35
Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. VI.—After Sixty Years', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 533–45
Close Anon Genre: | Biography, Serial | Subjects: | Photography, Analogy, Politics |
In arguing for the superiority of constitutional monarchy over republicanism, claims that 'when we have to do with many millions, scattered over many continents, it is impossible to make any impression on the general mind by the fleeting phantoms of evanescent Ministries. To borrow an illustration from photography, their exposure is not long enough. The plate is not sensitive enough for rapid photography. But the immobility, the massive grandeur, and the fierce light that beats around the Throne, all facilitate the production of a clear, well-defined image on the mind of our kin beyond the sea' (30).
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 32.
Trade in Corpses; or, Body-snatching in America Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 36.
The Bicycle in a Knapsack. The Decisive Factor in Future Wars Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 41–42.
The British Soldier in India. Modern Knight or Lawless Brute? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 47.
Modern Nurses and Their Defects: By Lady Priestley Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 48.
Incubators for Babies Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
James W Smith
Smith, James Walter
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| Subjects: | Obstetrics, Medical Treatment, Invention, Patents |
Reports that 'the latest device of modern scientific philanthropy, consists of something like a small hen-coop' in which a new-born baby is 'kept at uniform temperature by a spiral pipe through which a current of warm water is continually run'. This 'system of baby-hatching was invented by Dr. Alexander Lion
Lion, Alexandre
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 60.
The Italian Reviews Anon
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Issue [2] (February 1897) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Imperialism | Institutions mentioned: | Army
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Observes that 'the military medico-police intend to make another attempt to establish prostitution as a branch of the Imperial service in India', and warns George F Hamilton
Hamilton, Lord George Francis
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 149.
["A Journey Through the Malay States"] Anon
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[Crime and the Census] Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 151.
Darwin and Spencer. By Mr. Grant Allen Anon
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Cyclomania Morbus. By a Cyclo-mad Doctor Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Arthur Shadwell
Shadwell, Arthur
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, National Review
National Review
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| Subjects: | Transport, Machinery, Mental Illness, Medical Practitioners, Specialization, Nomenclature, Neurology |
Claims that 'we are about to witness the evolution of a new class of specialists corresponding to the mad doctors who were so well known under the Lunacy Acts. For want of a better title we may call them cyclo-mad doctors, and just as we know a mad doctor is always ready to discover signs of incipient lunacy in the simplest departure from regular routine, so the cyclo-mad doctor is disposed to discover symptoms of the new disease—which again, for want of a better name, we may christen Cyclomania Morbus—in every headache of which a rider may complain'. Also recounts 'discussing the question of different kinds of amusements as brain rests with Mr. Grant Allen
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 159–60.
The Nineteenth Century Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
Ethel G Fenwick
Fenwick (née Manson), Ethel Gordon
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, Montagu Lubbock
Lubbock, Montagu
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| Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Education, Gender | Disease, Bacteriology | People mentioned: |
Shibasaburo Kitasato
Kitasato, Shibasaburo
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Anon, 'Modern Nurses and Their Defects: By Lady Priestley', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 47
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 167–68.
The Forum Anon
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Some Notable Books of the Month Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Kingsley 1897,
Kingsley, Mary
Henrietta 1897. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco
and Cameroons, London: Macmillan & Co.
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Clodd 1897
Clodd, Edward
1897. Pioneers of Evolution From Thales to Huxley: With an Intermediate
Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement, London: Grant
Richards
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| Subjects: | Exploration, Travel, Gender, Physical Geography, Imperialism, Anthropology, Evolution, Darwinism, Philosophy, History of Science |
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 241.
How to Live Long Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 246–47.
The Prophecies of Edison; or, the Vision of Things to Come Anon
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The Mysteries of the Waterfinder Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 250.
Is the Plague Coming? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 254.
The Altruism of Animals. Are They Better Christians than Men? Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 269.
Photographic Marvels Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 273.
Some Illustrated Magazines Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 276–85.
The Book of the Month. Nansen's "Furthest North" Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Nansen 1897,
Nansen,
Fridtjof 1897. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of
Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893–96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh
Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, 2 vols, Westminster: Archibald
Constable and Co.
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Nansen 1890,
Nansen,
Fridtjof 1890. The First Crossing of Greenland, trans. from
the Norwegian by
Hubert Majendie Gepp, London:
Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Bain 1897
Bain, James Arthur
1897. Life of Fridtjof Nansen: Scientist and Explorer, Including an Account
of the 1893–1896 Expedition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co.
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| Relevant illustrations: | photo. [2]; map [2] | Subjects: | Publishing, Reading, Exploration, Endeavour, Physical Geography, Oceanography, Heroism, Hypothesis, Steamships, Discovery | People mentioned: |
Joseph Wiggins,
Wiggins, Joseph
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Otto N Sverdrup,
Sverdrup, Otto Neumann
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Johansen, Hjalmar
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Comments on the 'Nansen boom' of the last month, and notes that it is 'many years since any publisher has reaped as golden a harvest as Messrs. Constable
Archibald Constable and Co., firm
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Nansen, Fridtjof
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Nawanagar, Maharaja Shri
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, maharaja jam saheb of
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Issue [4] (April 1897) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 305–16.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Photography, Technology, Statistics, Disease, Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Imperialism, Medical Practitioners, Gender |
Reports the eagerly anticipated 'prize fight for the Championship of the ring' which was fought in Nevada between Robert Fitzsimmons
Fitzsimmons, Robert
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Corbett, James John
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View the register entry >>. The fight 'lasted nearly an hour, and as every phase of it was photographed for reproduction on the kinetoscope, we may expect to see the latest resources of photographic science employed in familiarising every man and boy in the English-speaking world with every detail of the fourteen rounds' (314). Also disputes the statistical claims made concerning the prevalence of syphilis in the British Army
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 321–35.
Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. IV.—The Queen as Head of the Church
[4/6]Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. I.—From Republicanism to Monarchy', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 15–30
Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. VI.—After Sixty Years', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 533–45
Close Anon Genre: | Biography, Serial | Subjects: | Rationalism, Education, Societies, Patronage, Medical Practitioners, Gender, Heterodoxy, Spiritualism, Race, Railways, Accidents |
Asserts that 'the Prince-Consort
Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha],
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Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
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Combe, George
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Combe, George
1835. Lectures on Popular Education: Delivered to the Edinburgh
Philosophical Association in April and November 1833, Edinburgh: Maclachlan
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 347.
Why the Germans are Beating Us. The Testimony of Sir Philip Magnus Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Philip Magnus
Magnus, Sir Philip, 1st Baronet
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Edwin 1896. "Made in Germany", London: William
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Is This the End of Explosives in War? Or, the Miracle of the Marconi Waves Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Henry J W Dam
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| Subjects: | Wonder, Electromagnetism, Physics, Ether, Materialism, Psychical Research, Telegraphy, Commerce, Military Technology |
Although the 'novelty of the Röntgen
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Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
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Preece, Sir William Henry
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 358.
Battling by Balloon Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 359.
Wonders That Yet May Come. A Vision of Things to Come Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 360.
Why Not Try for the South Pole? A Plea for an Antarctic Expedition Anon
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[The Formation of Sand-dunes] Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 361.
The Family Life of Animals. From a Sociological Point of View Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 365.
The Deadly Trade of Matchmaking. Evidence from France Anon
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Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 369.
The Living Envelope of the World Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 371–72.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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Borderland Anon
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The North American Review Anon
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Blackwood's Magazine Anon
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Some Notable Books of the Month Anon
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Issue [5] (May 1897) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Telegraphy, Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Medical Practitioners, Gender, Imperialism, Hunting, Natural Imperialism, Extinction |
Reports that in the General Post Office
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Hamilton, Lord George Francis
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View the register entry >> is nevertheless fiercely resisting 'even this minimised concession to the clamour of the doctors and the officers', and Josephine E Butler
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 450.
The Progress of Medicine During the Reign. Sixty Years of Surgery and Physic Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Malcolm A Morris
Morris, Sir Malcolm Alexander
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, Nineteenth Century
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| Subjects: | Progress, Medical Treatment, Surgery, Pathology, Anaesthesia, Antiseptics, Instruments, Physics, Bacteriology, Sanitation, Specialization |
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The Fight Against Disease. By Pasteur's Successor Anon
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The Genesis of the Maxim Gun. An Interview with Mr. Maxim Anon
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Our Modern Public Schools. Wanted, an Educational Council Anon
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The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Westminster Review Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
Benjamin W Elmy
Elmy, Benjamin W
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Corbet, William Joseph
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, Westminster Review
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| Subjects: | Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Medical Practitioners, Gender, Imperialism | Mental Illness |
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