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Issue [1] (January 1898) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 3–9.
 The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Microscopy, Analogy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Gender, Engineers, Industry, Government, Declinism, Expertise |
Notes that 'When men of science are preparing microscopical specimens for exhibition they frequently stain the exhibit with some coloured dye, which leaves its form intact, and brings out its outline in clear relief. A similar result has been attained on a wider arena than the slide of the microscope, by introducing a strain of German blood into the distinctly English stock of the Kaiser
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 31.
Professor Huxley's Home Life Anon
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Why the Americans are Beating Us Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 34.
Chainless Cycles and Others. By Mr. Joseph Pennell Anon
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Artist and Scientist at Loggerheads Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Johan F Krouthén
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| Subjects: | Controversy, Disciplinarity, Aesthetics, Light, Observation, Scientific Practitioners, Expertise |
Reports a spirited response to the accusation made by the scientist Hugo H Hildebrandsson
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A Barometer of Civilisation. The Statistics of Homicide Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 40.
The Horrors of the Great Sandy Desert. The Story of Dr. Sven Hedin Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 47.
Is Photography an Art? Yes, Says M. de La Sizeranne Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 48.
Light from City Refuse Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 48.
Our Trade in Song-birds Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 54–55.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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The Humanitarian Anon
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The North American Review Anon
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The Arena Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 59.
The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 61.
The Italian Magazines Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 63–68.
The Topic of the Month. "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | National Efficiency, Government, Declinism, Industry, Technology, Education, Schools, Gender, Periodicals |
Observes that 'Success in the industrial struggle, which is every year increasing in intensity, is commanded, not by pauper labour, but by superior intelligence. We are being beaten because we are not so smart, so brainy, so scientific, so capable, in short, as our rivals'. In order to alleviate this parlous situation 'we must Educate, Educate, Educate. Not merely in our public elementary schools, although that is supremely important, but in our secondary schools, in our technical schools, in our universities, and, above all, in that great university of life, in which newspaper editors and statesmen are tutors and professors'. (63) Also details an educational experiment being conducted at Bakewell Grammar School
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Contract | Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 105–17.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Engineers, Machinery, Industry, Declinism, National Efficiency, Sex, Obstetrics, Human Development, Nutrition, Gender, Analogy, Entomology |
Records the end of the bitter seven month strike originally called by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 142–45.
Why We are Being Beaten in the World's Markets Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Benjamin Taylor
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| Subjects: | National Efficiency, Machinery, Engineers, Declinism, Industry, Technology |
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The Secret of Old Age Anon
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The Annual Rhythm of the Pulse Anon
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The Purification of the Thames. Sea-trout at Westminster Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 158–59.
Off to the North Pole Once More! The Wellman and Peary Expeditions Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 160.
The Garden of Eden—Latest Location Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 162.
An Alarming Article on Our Bread Supply Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 163.
The Failure of the C. D. Acts. Some Significant Statistics Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 164.
The Dwindling Population of France Anon
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The Scientific Basis of Theism. The Philosophy of Professor Fraser Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 172.
The National Review Anon
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The Theosophical Review Anon
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The Humanitarian Anon
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The North American Review Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
Cesare Lombroso
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Anon, 'A Barometer of Civilisation. The Statistics of Homicide', Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 39
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The Forum Anon
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The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Gender |
Observes that the 'almost simultaneous' deaths of James Stansfeld
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 222–35.
Character Sketch. The Marquis of Salisbury Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Politics, Conservatism, Radicalism, Electricity, Laboratories, Progress, Light, Transport, Declinism |
Remarks that although Robert A T G Cecil (3rd Marquess of Salisbury)
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 239.
How to Make Gold Out of Silver. Something Better than Klondyke Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Herbert C Fyfe
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How We May Beat Our Rivals: By "Sharpening the Wits of Our People" Anon
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A Plea for School Gardens Anon
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Mild Winters Destined to be Universal. So Says Mr. Grant Allen Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Exclaims that the 'hastening' of the planet's natural gradual warming 'ought not to be beyond the resources of an ever-expanding science. We have, it seems, only to doff the ice-cap worn at both ends of our planet to make mild winters universal. Our high explosives may yet come in handy for this purpose [...]. Here is a prospect of adventure to a world getting almost afraid of finding no more chance of it. Polar exploration, submarine exploration, applied seismology, and the abolition of winter rigours—what a vista of romance!'.
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The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Contemporary Review Anon
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The Geographical Journals Anon
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The North American Review Anon
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The Storm Bell Anon
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The Century Anon
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The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Government, Politics, Futurism, Telegraphy, Railways, Technology, Climatology, Progress, Time |
Looks forward to a 'better future when Europe will be something more than a geographical expression'. After all, the 'telegraph and the express train render it as easy to govern Britain from Cimiez as from Balmoral. Some day we may see Russia ruled from the Isle of Wight and Germany from the Bay of Naples. Our old ideas of time and space are being revolutionised. The most convenient centre of Government will be governed chiefly by telephonic and climatic considerations. As the telectroscope which is to astonish the world at the Paris Exhibition
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Character Sketch. George Müller of Bristol Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Technology, Telegraphy, Progress, Sound, Scientific Practitioners, Piety, Religion, Experiment, Methodology, Scientific Naturalism, Psychical Research |
Reflects that 'I sometimes amuse myself by imagining the mental processes of an intelligent scientist of 1870 if he could suddenly be transported to the present day, and confronted with the spectacle—the familiar, ordinary spectacle—of a telephone'. In an imaginary dialogue set in 1898, the scientist from 1870, a Mr Jones, exclaims, 'Why on earth are you talking into that hole in the wall? Have you gone mad?', and leaves 'in a huff, thoroughly convinced that by the immutable laws of sound every man of science and commonsense must know perfectly well that it is all fudge, this talk of a Central and a telephone'. If, however, he were to overcome his initial scepticism and test out the telephone, it is certain that Mr Jones would soon 'become a subscriber to the Telephone Exchange, and constantly use the agency the very existence of which he had declared to be beyond the bounds of possibility'. (325) This 'little introductory apologue' is necessary to a consideration of the work of the late philanthropist George Müller
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 357–58.
Why We are Being Beaten Anon
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Brazil and Its Miraculous Palm. A New Field for Colonisation Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 373–74.
The Nineteenth Century Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
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The Forum Anon
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The Westminster Review Anon
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The Century Magazine Anon
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The Ladies' Home Journal Anon
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The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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The Book of the Month. The Latest Apocalypse of the End of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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George 1895c. The Stolen Bacillus: And Other Incidents,
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Wells, Herbert
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George 1897b. The Plattner Story: And Others, London: Methuen
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| Subjects: | Entropy, Extinction, Futurism, Imagination, Science Fiction, Natural Law, Extra-Terrestrial Life, War, Bacteriology, Natural Imperialism, Mathematics, Psychical Research, Narcotics, Degeneration |
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | War, Military Technology, Ethics, Biblical Authority, Religion, Internationalism, Technology |
Remarks that in the wake of the bloody battle at Atbara in North Africa and the outbreak of war between the United States and Spain it is 'possible that scientific manslaughter on the largest scale may be but a grim object-lesson as to the reality of the truth which was stated long ago in the old Book. We are all members of one another, and if one member suffers, all the other members suffer with it'. Urges that 'We are now entering, in the twentieth century, upon an epoch of universal world-wide inter-communication which, when seen by the eye of faith, appears to prefigure the universal triumph of the principle of human fraternity and the solidarity of the race'. (420) Also suggests that the 'inaugural dinner of the Foreign Press Association
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[The Telectroscope] Anon
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Mankind Under Notice to Quit. All Life Extinct Within Four Hundred Years Anon
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The Earthquake Wizard Anon
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Animals as Drunkards Anon
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The Effect of Music on Animals Anon
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Winged Wonders. Strange Facts About the Flight of Birds Anon
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George Müller's Prayer Test Anon Genre: | Editorial, Rejoinder | Subjects: | Piety, Religion, Experiment, Methodology, Scientific Naturalism, Secularism |
Remarks upon the 'several letters' received from readers in response to the Anon, 'Character Sketch. George Müller of Bristol', Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 325–37 last month of the late philanthropist George Müller
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The Contemporary Review Anon
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The National Review Anon
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The Century Anon
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The North American Review Anon
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The Forum Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
Charles B Bliss
Bliss, Charles Bemis
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Galton, Sir Francis
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Cassier's Magazine Anon
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The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 507.
Death in the Lamp Anon
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Telegraphy, Imperialism, Politics |
Remarks upon the 'extraordinary popularity of the great South African' Cecil J Rhodes
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[Drift-ice of the Polar Seas] Anon
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The Telectroscope and Its Inventor Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Revue de Revues
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Jan Szczepanik,
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Exposition Universelle Internationale de Paris en 1900
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The Electric Tram as a Revolutionist Anon
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How Did the Gold Get into the Rand? By Mr. John Hays Hammond Anon
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[An Inexpensive Microscope in Every School] Anon Genre: | Editorial | Subjects: | Education, Schools, Microscopy, Natural History, Wonder |
Recounts the suggestion of a 'correspondent' that 'the interest of the children in natural objects would be immensely stimulated if it were possible to have a good but inexpensive microscope in every school', for 'It is a veritable new world which the microscope reveals to the eye—a world the very existence of which was previously almost incredible'.
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Love as a Law of Nature. A Reply to Professor Huxley Anon
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Lightning as a Revolutionist; or, Ten Years' Electrical Progress Anon
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The Nineteenth Century Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
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Anon, 'The Nineteenth Century', Review of Reviews, 17 (1898), 373–74
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The North American Review Anon
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The Forum Anon
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Nouvelle Revue Anon
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Some Notable Books of the Month Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Bright 1898
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Notes that 'Last month we had two illustrations which strikingly indicated the transformation which the electric cable has brought about in our everyday life. The scene of the Spanish-American war is several thousand miles distant from our shores, but day by day we have followed its course with almost as full a knowledge of the events of the previous twenty-four hours as if we had been on the spot. The world-wide sorrow which found expression on the death of Mr. Gladstone
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