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Issue [1] (January 1899) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 7–19.
 The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Transport, Electricity, Declinism, Education, Schools, Mathematics |
Bemoans the fact that 'London is woefully behind almost any second-rate American city in the matter of rapid transport. There is nothing in London that approaches either for speed or for cheapness to the long-distance fares on the trolley-cars which are rapidly becoming the universal means of transit in the Transatlantic cities'. Urges that the London County Council
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 54.
Uncle Sam and His Indians. "A Century of Dishonour" Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 56.
The Next Link in the Cape-to-Cairo Chain. Rosy Prospects of the Tanganyika Railway Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 60.
New and Easy Cure for Consumption Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 65.
Ethereal Telegraphy Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 67.
A Submarine Auto-motor Car Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 67.
"Wild Traits in Tame Animals" Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 68.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 69.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 75.
The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 78.
The Engineering Times Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 86–90.
Some Notable Books of the Month Anon
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Issue [2] (February 1899) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 107–15.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | War, Politics, Military Technology, Invention, Science Fiction, Futurism |
Reports the circular forwarded by the Russian government in advance of the proposed peace conference at the Hague, which suggests 'the interdicting of new and more deadly explosives' as well as 'the prohibition of the use of submarine boats' (109–10). Observes, however, that there is 'no likelihood of any interdict being placed upon the use of new weapons; indeed, there is reason to believe that the ending of war is more likely to be brought about by the discovery of vril—that marvellous fluid described by Bulwer Lytton
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1st
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Simon, Etienne Antoine Edouard (pseud Lockroy)
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 138.
The Black Sea to Baltic Canal Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 142.
The Augean Stables Outdone. The Lair of Yellow Fever Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
George E Hill
Hill, George Everett
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| Subjects: | Sanitation, Disease, Putrefaction, Hygiene, Imperialism, Endeavour |
Gives an account of the posthumous report of the 'martyr to sanitary research' George E Waring
Waring, George Edwin
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 146.
A New Electrical Theory Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 147.
In the Engineers' Inferno. Below Decks Before Santiago Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 159.
The New Nile Reservoir Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 167.
The Nineteenth Century Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
Archibald Hurd
Hurd, Sir Archibald
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, St George J Mivart
Mivart, St George Jackson
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, John G S Coghill
Coghill, John George Sinclair
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| Subjects: | Telegraphy | Experimental Psychology, Philosophy, Soul | Disease, Bacteriology, Sanitation, Medical Treatment | People mentioned: |
Wilhelm Wundt
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 170.
The Westminster Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 176–77.
The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 185–91.
Some Notable Books of the Month Anon
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Issue [3] (March 1899) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 207–16.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Railways, Technology |
Reports that Charles T Ritchie
Ritchie, Charles Thomson, 1st Baron Ritchie of
Dundee
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews
Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 244–45.
Unlimited Power at Next to No Cost. A Stupendous Industrial Revolution at Hand Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Ray S Baker
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, McClure's Magazine
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| Subjects: | Invention, Steam-power, Electricity, Magic, Gas Chemistry, Physics, Industrial Chemistry, Futurism, Imperialism, Military Technology |
Announces one of the 'most astounding prospects ever opened up by scientific invention', which 'more completely eclipses the mechanical marvels of steam and electricity than the slave-mill and stage-coach' by promising 'at almost no cost any amount of motive power'. This 'new substance', though, is in fact 'a very old friend—nothing less than the common air, only in a liquefied state. Liquid air is the new mechanical magician'. The 'discoveries' in gas liquefaction made since the 1870s by Raoul-Pierre Pictet
Pictet, Raoul-Pierre
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Olszewski, Karol Stanislaw
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View the register entry >> have now been 'developed [...] into the production of a new and potent industrial force' by the American inventor Charles E Tripler
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View the register entry >>. (244) This low-temperature motive power could mean that, amongst other things, 'the difficulties of tropical climate for white men are overcome', for with 'a house at any temperature he pleases, the Englishman can live and thrive and bring up children in the very hottest part of the earth' (245).
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 247.
What is Vitalism? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 248.
The Hero as Scavenger; or, the Epic of the Sanitation of Santiago Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 249.
International Sanitary Control. A Stiff Suggestion from America Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 253.
Pearls: Natural and Artificial Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 258.
The Doom of the Tall Chimney Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 265.
The State as Weather Prophet Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 266.
Telepathy in Theology Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 272.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 273.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 274.
The North American Review Anon
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Issue [4] (April 1899) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 307–15.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Telegraphy, Psychical Research |
Reports that the 'success of Signor Marconi's
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 349.
A Novel Theory of Immaculate Conception Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 355.
What is the Chief End of Woman? To Produce Baby and Glorify Him for Ever Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Arabella Kenealy
Kenealy, Arabella Madonna
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| Subjects: | Breeding, Gender, Health |
Reports that 'having long ago demonstrated that the cultivation of their brain by women was accompanied by all manner of terrible dangers to their reproductive efficiency', Kenealy 'now lifts up her voice [...] to warn her sisters against the awful consequences of cultivating their muscle'. Her article, however, will 'read like cruel wrong to the myriad women to whom motherhood is an unattainable paradise', and may make 'lazy girls imagine that they are best fulfilling their destinies as breeding machines by never cultivating their minds or training their bodies'.
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 356.
How to Live Long. By Those Who Have Done It Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 356.
Corpulence and Genius Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 356.
Insect Inoculators of Disease Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 357.
The Human Organism as Republic Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 360.
May Life Exist on Other Worlds? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 360.
[The Submarine Argonaut] Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 370.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 387–93.
The Book of the Month. The Temperance Problem and Social Reform Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Rowntree and Sherwell 1899
Rowntree,
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Sherwell, Arthur James 1899.
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| Subjects: | Sociology, Political Economy, Natural Law, Railways, Methodology, Induction, Temperance |
Claims that many current approaches to social problems are 'theoretically and morally perfect, and are constructed with scrupulous regard to all accepted laws of political economy. Their only defect is that in practice they are unworkable. Many of the locomotives which competed with Stephenson's
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View the register entry >> were built in accordance with recognised rules. They should have moved, but they did not. It is the same with many proposals for social reform which are enthusiastically supported to-day'. The authors of the present book on temperance, however, 'have approached the subject from the point of view of the scientific investigator who desires to discover the essential facts of the problem, and not with any preconceived theory for which they hoped to find supporting evidence' (387).
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Issue [5] (May 1899) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 411–21.
The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Museums, Commerce, Industry, Invention, Imperialism, Declinism, Railways |
Recommends 'establishing a great industrial museum at Peking, a kind of International South Kensington
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View the register entry >> 'Railway Regulation Bill, in which it was proposed to lessen railway slaughter by introducing automatic couplings, has been dropped like a hot potato' by the Government, after vigorous objections to such 'interference' were made by the 'powerful vested interest' of the railway companies, who were represented in Parliament
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 457.
A New Theory of Totemism. A Co-operative System of Food Supply Anon
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German and American as Trade Rivals Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Louis J Magee
Magee, Louis J
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, Engineering Magazine
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| Subjects: | National Efficiency, Declinism, Industry, Electricity, Commerce, Technology, Machinery |
Points out that while many Americans still view 'the Kaiser's
Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia
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View the register entry >> realm as an "effete monarchy"', in fact 'Germans have excelled in steam engines, boilers, electrical machinery, storage batteries, underground cables, chemical processes, and throughout their magnificent iron and steel industry, as well as in the electro-technical industry'.
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 467.
Heat Without Fuel. Hitching Our Chariot to the Sun Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Chauncey M'Govern
M'Govern, Chauncey
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, Pearson's Magazine
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| Subjects: | Wonder, Energy, Electricity, Hydrography, Dynamics, Heat |
Comments that 'After Marconi's
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Tesla, Nikola
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 468.
To March Stooping, Not Erect Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 474–75.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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Issue [5*] (15 May 1899) 'Supplement to the "Review of Reviews". Has War Become Impossible? A Conversation with M. Bloch, the Author of "The Future of War". Chronicled by W. T. Stead' | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 3–16.
Has War Become Impossible? A Conversation with M. Bloch W T Stead
Stead, William Thomas
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View the register entry >> Genre: | Dialogue | Subjects: | War, Military Technology, Aeronautics, Dynamics, Industrial Chemistry, Invention | People mentioned: |
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Bloch, Jan (or Iwan)
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Bloch, Jan 1899.
Is War Now Impossible? Being an Abridgement of "The War of the Future in Its
Technical, Economic and Political Relations". With a Prefatory Conversation
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Stead, Russian Library 2, London: Grant Richards
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Issue [6] (June 1899) | Expand
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 553–54.
Inventive Korea Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 554.
Bacteria in Tobacco: The Cause of Its Flavour! Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 561.
Wireless Telegraphy. Signor Marconi on His Invention Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 562.
The Athletic Woman a Degenerate Anon
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 567.
The Y-Rays: The Latest Fairy Tale of Science Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
R N Mere
Mere, R N
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| Subjects: | Light, Electromagnetism, Ether, Physics, Military Technology, Mesmerism |
Describes the 'marvellous invention' of Alex Orloff
Orloff, Alex (Swedish inventor)
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Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 567.
["Talks to Teachers on Psychology"] Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 19 (1899), 580.
The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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