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Issue [1] (July 1890) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 3–12.
 The Progress of the World Anon
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Character Sketch: July. Millicent Garrett Fawcett & Her Daughter Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Relevant illustrations: | photo. | Subjects: | Gender, Mathematics, Universities, Education, Statistics |
The biographical narrative begins by noting that for many people 'the event of the month has been the placing of Miss Phillipa Garrett Fawcett
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Do Men Still Long for Immortality? No.—By Mr. Frederick W. Myers Anon
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Is Pasteurism a Fraud? Yes.—By T. M. Dolan, MD, and C. B. Taylor, MD Anon
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The Exorcism of the Smoke Fiend Anon
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How Mankind Might be Improved. By Murder, Mutilation, or Imprisonment Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Hiram A Stanley
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, Journal of Mental Science
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| Subjects: | Heredity, Darwinism, Human Species, Breeding, Eugenics, Mental Illness, Degeneration |
Complains that all three articles fail to recognise that any plans to apply artificial selection to human breeding can be effected only 'by capital punishment, by surgical operation, or by perpetual imprisonment'.
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How We are Improving Mankind. One Practical Method of Elimination Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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| Subjects: | Anti-Scientism, Heredity, Darwinism, Human Species, Eugenics, Degeneration, Morality |
Reports that 'scientists are clamouring for State legalised murder in the interests of artificial selection' and 'deploring the perversity of maudlin philanthropists in preserving alive those whom the beneficent law of elimination would send to their graves'. The 'immortal principle of the survival of the fittest and the doctrine of heredity' nevertheless point towards the need for some regulation of human reproduction.
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 36.
English Universities. From the Dutch Point of View Anon
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 42.
Some Facts and Figures About the Telegraph. The Number and Cost of Telegrams Anon
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 43.
Culture and Current Orthodoxy. Is There a Barrier Between Them? Anon
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Under Water Ships. The Latest Invention in Submarine Navigation Anon
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The Man in the Moon Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Reports that the 'imagination of all nations has busied itself a great deal with the dark spots in the moon', and several 'strange myths and superstitions have sprung up'.
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 45.
Who is the Greatest Genius of Our Age? Mr. Keely, by Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science and Education
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Warns the 'sceptic and scornful from venturing further' into an article which nominates the man who 'discovered vril, the mysterious force' that is 'the governing medium of the universe' as the 'greatest genius of our age'. Also notes that 'Lord Lytton
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 46.
Getting Up a Health Class. A Lady's Experience Anon
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The Hypnotic Epidemic. By Dr. B. W. Richardson Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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| Subjects: | Mesmerism, Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Anaesthesia, Boundary Formation |
Notes that Richardson's article dismisses hypnotism as a 'contagious [...] epidemic' and also claims 'that Napoleon
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The Science of History. Must it be Based on Statistics Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Henri Berr
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Louis Bourdeau,
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How I Became a Rationalist. By Mr. W. E. H. Lecky Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 56–57.
The National Anon
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The Arena Anon
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The Forum Anon
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 60.
Cornhill Anon
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The German Magazines Anon
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 66.
The Italian and Scandinavian Reviews Anon
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The Musical Magazines Anon
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Some Foreign Military Periodicals Anon
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [4] | Subjects: | Engineers, Military Technology, Gas Chemistry, Humanism, Patents, War, Science Fiction, Futurism, Progress, Ethnology, Christianity, Photography, Telegraphy, Imperialism, Railways, Electricity, Government | People mentioned: |
John Lubbock
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Relates how the 'Giffard gun', which uses gas to propel bullets without sound or heat, is 'destined to destroy empires, check the progress of Socialism, and establish throughout the world the principle of government by consent of the governed' (103). Both man's ability in the future 'instantly at will [to] kill his fellow with impunity' and the increasing 'utilization of Vril—the invisible force of the universe' will mean that 'government by force becomes extinct'. This is illustrated by a lengthy passage from Edward G E L Bulwer-Lytton's
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 116–20.
School Excursions to Historic Scenes. Report of Our Helpers on Service for July Anon Genre: | Editorial, Notes | Subjects: | Nationalism, Natural History, Societies, Schools, Popularization |
After complaining that we are 'bringing up our children in almost total ignorance of the scenes in the midst of which they pass their lives', the article lists a few clubs and associations whose members 'find profit and pleasure in visiting the scenes famous in our island story' (117). Amongst those selected is the Brighton Higher Grade Board School Natural History Club
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 129–30.
My Schools and Schoolmasters. By Professor Tyndall Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
John Tyndall
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Edward Frankland,
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 130.
A Novel Argument Against Darwinism Anon
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How to Utilize Amateur Photographers Anon
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How Far will Hypnotism Go? Its Latest Miracles Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Jules B Luys
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, Fortnightly Review
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| Subjects: | Mesmerism, Psychology, Disease, Medical Treatment, Magnetism, Evolution, |
Abstracts the latest research on 'that new and most uncanny of modern sciences, which may revolutionize most of the received ideas as to the constitution and laws of the mind of man'.
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 137.
More About Count Mattei Anon
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With the Red-Skins. The Strange Story of John Nelson Anon
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Professor Huxley as Controversialist Anon
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The Agricultural Crisis in America. A Study by Comte Kératry Anon
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The Electric Witch. A Quaint Fancy. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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| Subjects: | Spiritualism, Electricity, Railways, Creation, Anti-Scientism |
Extracts Holmes's claim that even in this 'age of cynicism' the 'form of cosmic vitality which we call electricity' should induce 'reverence'. Holmes comments, 'How near the mystic effluence of mechanical energy brings us to the divine source of all power and motion!'. He also describes 'electric tramcar[s]' as 'mighty caravans' powered by a 'mystic impulse'.
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Mr. Grant Allen's Ideal of Womanhood. A Protest from Madame Blavatsky Anon
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Are Criminals Responsible. The True Philosophy of Punishment Anon
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Is There Hope for the African. Yes. Indeed, Perhaps More Than for Us Anon
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The Sun as Artist. Is Art Indebted to Photography? Anon
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Spiritualism as a Social Phenomena Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Rintje K Kuipers
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| Subjects: | Spiritualism, Class, Morality |
Describes the 'spread of spiritualism in Holland, especially among the so-called cultivated middle classes' for whom neither the orthodoxy of the lower classes nor the unbelief of the educated upper classes can uphold the moral codes which underpin the social order.
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The Final Destiny of the Earth. A Curious Speculation Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
John S Vaughan
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| Subjects: | Christianity, Eschatology, Miracle, Natural Economy |
Vaughan's Catholic view is that 'the world will continue until every particle of its immense bulk has passed through human bodies, and the whole of its enormous weight will be just sufficient to furnish forth new bodies for the human race when the trumpet sounds for the Resurrection!'.
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The Edinburgh Review Anon
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The Pioneer Anon
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The Photographic Quarterly Anon
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The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Forum Anon
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Some Foreign Military Periodicals Anon
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Our Scientific Causerie. Photography in Natural Colours. By the Editor of "The Practical Photographer" H Snowden Ward
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Albert Bierstadt,
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After noting that in 'the July issue of the Photographic Quarterly
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 189–92.
The Photographs of the Month Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Photography, Progress |
Announces that the 'progress of photography, and the rapid development of photographic publishing, leads me to add this month a new feature to the REVIEW
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Disease, Public Health, Sanitation | People mentioned: |
Joseph Fayrer
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Reports that 'cholera, that beneficent sanitary inspector of the universe, is on his rounds again'. The water-born disease 'probably does more for the sanitation of the world than all the other diseases put together' (213), for it is only during a cholera outbreak that there occurs 'a sudden awakening of the public conscience' over the need for public health legislation (214).
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The Progress of Theosophy. By Madame Blavatsky Anon
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The Mote and the Beam. A Russian Protest Against English Hypocrisy Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Helena P H Blavatsky
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| Subjects: | Imperialism, Ethnology, Race, Natural Imperialism, Extinction |
Blavatsky argues that the English are not in a position to criticise Russian atrocities in Siberia when, as Carl Lumholtz
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How to Feed Mankind in the Millennium. Try Hothouses. By Prince Kropotkin Anon
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A Prophecy of Woe. Wars, Earthquakes, and Revolution Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Joseph R Buchanan
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Another Mattei Miracle. A Cancer Cured After Three Operations Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Samuel Kennedy
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Cesare Mattei,
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The Horrors of Hypnotism. How to Limit Them by Law Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Claims that the 'doctrine of free will is entirely destroyed by hypnotism' and warns that the 'hypnotised can be used as a ready tool in the service of crime'. Calls for state legislation which will restrict 'the practice of hypnotism' to 'licensed physicians [...] having authorized witnesses present'.
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Submarine Boats in War. A Novel Idea for the Defence of Sea Ports Anon
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How Men Become Automata. The Real Progress of Life Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Jules B Luys
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| Subjects: | Physiological Psychology, Neurology, Mental Illness |
Argues that even though the performance of several operations, including writing and playing the piano, become mechanical, a 'psychic force remains in action, side by side with automatic force'. However, 'when the man has become all mechanical his race is run. He is already half dead'. This state of senility, in which the mental state is nothing more than 'an agglomeration of acquired habits', is 'possible at all ages'.
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Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 255–56.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Forum Anon
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The North American Review Anon
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The Arena Anon
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The Belgian Reviews Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
Xavier de Reul
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| Subjects: | Geology, Physiology, Popularization, Education, Nationalism |
Complains that articles in Belgian periodicals on geology and experimental physiology are 'mere food for babes, with not one new idea, good at most for a primer in a Board School'. What is presented to the Belgian public 'as something "new and strange"' is well known in England, even to 'a scholar at a working man's college'.
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The Russian and Italian Reviews Anon
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Some Foreign Military Periodicals Anon
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The Photographs of the Month Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Photography, Amateurism |
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Our Scientific Causerie. The Good Fairy Phagocyte; or, the Science of Germicide Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Essay | Relevant illustrations: | wdct. | Subjects: | Microscopy, Nomenclature, Disease, Bacteriology, Medical Treatment, Public Health | People mentioned: |
Henry E Roscoe,
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [2] | Subjects: | Military Technology, Industrial Chemistry, Progress, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Lecturing, Science Fiction, Population, Monographs, Gender, Exploration, Physical Geography | People mentioned: |
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Robert 1890. An Essay on the Principle of Population: or, A View
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Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it
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How to Reform Our Hospitals. By Sir Morell Mackenzie Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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How Science Supports Scripture. By Mr. Gladstone Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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How Long Should a Man Work? By Dr. Benj. W. Richardson Anon
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Count Mattei, the Miracle Worker Anon
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How to Make Feather Books. A New Natural History Amusement Anon
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The Responsibility of Leaders of Thought. The Moral of M. Bourget's "Disciple" Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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This 'shot fired against the scientific school' considers whether a philosopher's 'opinions on the value of psychological experiment' make him responsible when 'his pupil, in the name of psychological study, makes experiments upon himself and the daughter of his employer' which lead to 'dishonour, and finally death, for the girl'. No definitive answer is given to the problem. Concludes that 'the cultivated youth of France [...] will not be taught to forget' the path of 'moral progress [....] by dilettantism, nor scepticism, nor Darwinism, nor determinism'.
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The New Laws of 1890 Anon Genre: | News-Digest | Subjects: | Government, Mental Illness, Agriculture, Disease |
Gives brief details of new legislation, including the 'Lunacy Act' and the 'Contagious Diseases (Animals—Pleuro-Pneumonia) Act'.
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The Contemporary Review Anon
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The Italian Reviews Anon
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Some Foreign Military Periodicals Anon
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The Photographs of the Month Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Photography, Astronomy |
Asserts that the 'most astonishing results [...] have been produced in astronomy by the aid of photography', and claims that 'Never before in the history of humanity has man possessed the power of penetrating so profoundly into the depths of the infinite' (378).
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The Book of the Month. In Darkest England, and the Way Out. By General Booth
[1/2]Anon, 'The Book of the Month. In Darkest England, and the Way Out. By General Booth', Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 492–507
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Précis of a recent book by William Booth
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Relevant illustrations: | eng. [3] | Subjects: | War, Scientism, Military Technology, Chemistry, Alchemy |
Commemorates the ninetieth birthday of Helmuth K B F von Moltke
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Character Sketch: October. The Right Hon. John Morley, M.P. Anon
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How I was Educated. By Mr. Frederic Harrison Anon
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Mr. Gladstone on Science and the Bible. Concluding Paper Anon
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The Coming Chinese Conquest. A Confirmation of Lord Wolseley's Views Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Explains that the Chinese have 'an enormous natural advantage' over the white races, in that 'they can do with so little sleep'.
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Photography with an Object. Some Suggestions for Amateurs Anon
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Looking a Little Forward. By the Author of "Looking Backward" Anon
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How I Shall Get to the North Pole. By Dr. Nansen Anon
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The National Review Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
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Remarks warily that 'even the most daring of reviewers would shrink from attempting to summarize' Huxley's essay (467).
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The Forum Anon
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The Book of the Month. In Darkest England, and the Way Out. By General Booth
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According to William Booth
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [2], map | Subjects: | Ethnography, Observation, Utilitarianism, Scientism, Steamships, Accidents, Railways, Error |
Comments on the popular 'prejudice against cannibalism' provoked by the late James S Jameson's
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Character Sketch. Dr. Robert Koch Anon / A Conan Doyle
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The Magic Lantern Mission Anon Genre: | Editorial, Announcement | Subjects: | Education, Photography, Light, Microscopy, Colleges, Class |
Set thinking by an earlier article in the Review of Reviews [Anon, 'How to Utilise the Magic Lantern. Some Valuable Hints to Teachers', Review of Reviews, 1 (1890), 404], the author announces that 'Photography and the Magic-Lantern seem destined to revolutionize education [...]. Between them they are going to democratize sects, [and] educate the masses'. It is 'in science teaching [that] this change will be more easily effected', where it is 'so obvious an advantage to be able to throw upon a screen, a thousand-fold magnified, before the eyes of a whole class, the exact picture of the microscopical infinitesimals, the varying fortunes of whose continual warfare make the difference between health and disease'. As well as in 'highly equipped colleges of science [...] endowed by pious founders or supported by public taxes', the magic lantern can also be used to help educate the poor, especially in religion. (561)
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Work for the Children to Do. The Dicky Bird Society Anon Genre: | Editorial, Announcement | Subjects: | Societies, Education, Amusement, Natural History, Humanism |
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Miraculous Virtues of Cold Water. The Story of the Cures of Priest Kneipp Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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The Magic Rainmakers of Africa. The Marvellous Tale of a Modern Munchausen Anon
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A Proposed Medical Practitioners' Union Anon Genre: | Announcement | Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Professionalization |
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The Talent of Motherhood. Is it Endangered by Education? Anon
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How to Get Drunk for Fourpence. Ethermania in Ulster Anon
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The Humanity of the Small-Bore Rifle. From a Military Point of View Anon
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A Guide to Christmas Literature. Being a Comprehensive Guide to the Gift-Books of the Season Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous, Notes | Subjects: | Popularization, Natural History, Monographs |
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Our Scientific Causerie. Darwin's Successor at Home Benjamin Kidd
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The Book of the Year—In Darkest England. For the Way Out—£70,000, and More to Follow Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Religion, Scientific Naturalism, Controversy, Socialism |
In an account of the remarkable success of In Darkest England, and the Way Out
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