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Issue [1] (July 1893) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 3–9.
 The Progress of the World Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 13–19.
Character Sketch: July. Admiral Sir George Tryon, of H.M.S. "Victoria" Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Steamships, Military Technology, Accidents, Heroism, Romanticism, Feeling | People mentioned: |
George Tryon
Tryon, Sir George
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| Institutions mentioned: | Royal Navy
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Notes that it is 'the fashion among some writers to decry the modern ironclad, as if it were a mere clumsy ugly box of machinery and boilers, a thing from which all sentiment and romance had departed', but insists that as 'a matter of fact, these great marine monsters do succeed in inspiring the same kind of sentiment in the men who sail them and who fight them as did the old wooden battle-ships'. Furthermore, the sinking of HMS Victoria
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 23.
The Limitation of the American Family. The Decline in the Birth-Rate Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 29.
"The Size of the Sea" Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 30.
Prices Current for Wild Beasts Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 40.
On the Edge of the Future. Problems in Steam and Electricity Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Robert H Thurston
Thurston, Robert Henry
(1839–1903)
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, Engineering Review
Engineering Review
(1891–96)
Waterloo
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, Cleveland L Moffett
Moffett, Cleveland Langston
(1863–1926)
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, McClure's Magazine
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| Subjects: | Steam-power, Engineering, Progress, Skill, Steamships, Electricity, Miracle, Futurism |
Claims that the 'culmination of human ingenuity and skill seems to be presented in the new ocean steamers', and reports the notions of Alexander G Bell
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 40.
What Edison is After Now. Two New Inventions—Iron and Coal Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 41.
Flying by Sea and by Sky. What We are Coming to Next Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 42.
Lesseps in Ruin Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 43.
The Last Days of the World. By Camille Flammarion Anon
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Lady Doctors Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 47.
Witch Burning in France. A Chapter in the Annals of Crime Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Nouvelle Revue
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| Subjects: | Spiritualism, Scientific Practitioners, History of Science |
Notes how the 'history of mediæval spiritualism' shows that 'Not only the credulous and the ignorant, but some of the most noted scientific and medical authorities of the seventeenth century evidently took the spirits au grand sérieux'.
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 49.
Professor Huxley Among the Prophets. Mrs. Besant on This "Daniel Come to Judgement" Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 49.
Why Not Kill Consumptives at Once? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 52.
Ice Laid on Like Gas! The Latest American Notion Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 55.
The God of Science. The Latest Attempt to Define Deity Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 57.
"Borderland". Contents of the First Number of the New Quarterly Anon Genre: | Editorial, Literary Notice | Subjects: | Periodicals, Publishing, Supernaturalism, Psychical Research, Materialism, Astrology | People mentioned: |
Julia A Ames
Ames, Julia A
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Hudson [1893]
Hudson, Thomson
Jay [1893]. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis
for the Systematic Study of Hypnotism, Spiritism, Mental Therapeutics,
etc., Chicago: A. C. McClurg; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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In summarising the section of Borderland
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Wallace, Alfred Russel
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Janet, Pierre
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 58.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 60.
The New Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 60.
Glaciers and Valleys Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 62.
The Secret of Youth in Age Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 63.
The Arena Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 67.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 69–78.
The Miracle of the Maid of Orleans; or, The Evidence of the Supernatural in History Anon Genre: | Travelogue, Essay, Polemic | Subjects: | Miracle, Supernaturalism, Rationalism, Scientific Naturalism, Instruments, Microscopy, Spectroscopy |
Complains that 'so-called supernatural or miraculous phenomena' are 'hateful to the narrower scientists' who consistently refuse to 'recognize the birth of the Infinite Invisible, of the nature of which we know about as much by our microscopes and spectroscopes and other meteyards of science as the dwellers on the European coastline knew in Jeanne's
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), Saint ('The Maid of
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 97–101.
The New Books of the Month Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Haweis 1893
Haweis, Hugh
Reginald 1893. Sir Morell Mackenzie; Physician and Operator: A
Memoir Compiled and Edited from Private Papers and Personal Reminiscences,
London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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| Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Publishing, Monographs, Controversy |
Relates how the biography of the late Morell Mackenzie
Mackenzie, Sir Morell
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Issue [2] (August 1893) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 117–26.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Religion, Disease, Bacteriology, Fear, Sanitation, Mining, Accidents, Physical Geography, Societies, Gender |
Reports the 'outbreak of cholera at Mecca' which was caused because the 'well Zem Zem, the sacred fountain' of Islam, from which every pilgrim to the holy city must drink as much as they can, is 'a seething mass of microbes and water'. Reflects that it is 'very sad that Moslems should thus make religion a great cholera propagator', although it is 'on the whole less contemptible than the conduct of that American congregation which, from its slavish dread of infection, has this year substituted for the communion cup which passed from lip to lip an arrangement by which each communicant is supplied with a separate wine-glass for his exclusive use'. (120) Also relates how the 'Royal Geographical Society
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 135–44.
Character Sketch: August. Lord Kelvin, P.R.S. J Munro
Munro, John
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View the register entry >> Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [5] | Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Popularization, Photography, Race, Genius, Heroism, Mathematics, Heat, Electricity, Engineering, Patents, Telegraphy, Invention, Instruments, Electromagnetism, Oceanography, Instrument-makers, Navigation, Magnetism, Providence, Expertise, Error, Measurement, Natural Philosophy, Discovery, Physics, Dynamics, Statics, Language, Reading, Nomenclature, Textbooks, Authorship, Matter Theory, Geology, Darwinism, Astronomy, Entropy, Politics, Conservatism, Patronage, Status, Universities, Lecturing, Metaphysics | People mentioned: |
Cyrus W Field,
Field, Cyrus West
(1819–92)
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Michael Faraday,
Faraday, Michael
(1791–1867)
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Cromwell F Varley,
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood
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H C Fleeming Jenkin,
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming
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James P Joule,
Joule, James Prescott
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Philipp Reis,
Reis, Philipp
(1834–74)
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George B Airy,
Airy, Sir George Biddell
(1801–92)
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Peter G Tait,
Tait, Peter Guthrie
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Hermann von Helmholtz
Helmholtz, Hermann von
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Munro 1891,
Munro, John 1891.
Heroes of the Telegraph, London: Religious Tract Society
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Galton 1874
Galton,
Francis 1874. English Men of Science: Their Nature and
Nurture, London: Macmillan & Co.
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Celebrates the 'multifarious and diversified career' of William Thomson (1st Baron Kelvin)
Thomson, Sir William (Baron Kelvin of
Largs)
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View the register entry >> of Science—or if the older fashion be more to his taste—the Napoleon of natural philosophy' (144). Notes, however, that he is 'something of a "dark horse" to the English public', and remains largely 'unknown to the masses'. In fact, if we look in 'the windows of London photographers' we 'may hope to see a muscular athlete like Sandow
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View the register entry >>, but we shall look in vain for an intellectual giant such as Lord Kelvin'. Part of the reason for this is that 'his residence in Glasgow has withdrawn him from the vortex of metropolitan publicity'. (135) In discussing the 'pretty stiff reading' which students encounter in books like Elements of Natural Philosophy
Thomson,
William and
Tait, Peter Guthrie 1873. Elements
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Carlyle, Thomas
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View the register entry >> and some other great writers, seems to have devised a peculiar style of his own to express the workings of his own mind', and, after giving some examples of 'elaborate [...] Kelvinese', points out that he also has 'a propensity—I had almost said a "craze"—for coining' the new words which 'become necessary in the progress of a science', although many of these neologisms fail to be 'apt, brief and euphonious without ambiguity of meaning' (139). Upon his elevation to the peerage in 1892 'electricians were at first inclined to regret the loss of the familiar "Thomson"' in favour of the Kelvin which he took from the name of 'a beautiful and romantic stream' which passes alongside the University of Glasgow
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View the register entry >> Home Rule Bill on some principle of Conservative dynamics or rather statics' (140). Suggests that a 'wise Providence has imbued the soul' of Thomson with many attributes (138), and concludes that 'this man was created for science ...he is a prophet or a seer with a divine mission to reveal the physical laws' (142).
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 145.
The Mattei Treatment of Cancer Cases. Report on the Second Year's Test Anon
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 149.
The Next Step in Medicine. Cure by Suggestion Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 150.
Etheromania Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 156–57.
What We Have Come To. The Day Dream of an Astronomer Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 167.
Madame Blavatsky Anon
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Flies and Infection Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 173.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Contemporary Review Anon
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The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 176.
The New Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 179.
The Edinburgh Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 182.
A Blind Typewriter Anon
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The Book of the Month. The Story of Sir Richard and Lady Isabel Burton Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Burton 1893
Burton, Isabel
1893. The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, 2 vols, London: Chapman
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Burton, Isabel, Lady
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Richard F Burton,
Burton, Sir Richard Francis
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Cesare Mattei
Mattei, Cesare
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Issue [3] (September 1893) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 233–43.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Natural Imperialism, Extinction, Environmentalism, Medical Practitioners, Psychology |
Reports that the 'diplomatists' arbitrating the contested ownership of the Behring Sea have made the 'unanimous recommendation [...] that rigorous measures should be taken at once to protect the fur seal from the destruction which threatens to deprive ladies of sealskin jackets before the close of the century'. Observes that it 'will be odd if a Pacific Concert should come into existence for the preservation of the seal as the European Concert was created to secure the preservation of the Ottoman Empire. Of the two the seal is much the worthier'. (239) Also records the death of 'Dr. Charchot
Charcot, Jean-Martin
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 264.
How to be Young Though Old. The Experience of Septuagenarians Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 265–66.
"The Likeness of the Perfect Man". A Glimpse of What He Was and What He May be Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 266.
The Logic of the Mole. On "The Delusions Known as Religions" Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 270.
Should Hypnotism be Monopolised by M.D.s? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 274.
The Medical Education of Women Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 280.
A Yorkshire Naturalist Anon
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The Engine of the Future Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 284.
How the World will End. An Astronomer's Prediction Anon
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The Training of Wild Beasts Anon
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A Lady Geologist. Miss Maria M. Ogilvie, D.Sc. Anon Genre: | Biography | Subjects: | Education, Universities, Gender, Palaeontology, Geology, Fieldwork, Biology | People mentioned: |
Maria M Ogilvie Gordon,
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Charlotte A Scott,
Scott, Charlotte Angas
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Karl A von Zittel,
Zittel, Karl Alfred von
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Ferdinand von Richthofen
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