Science in the 19th Century Periodical

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Volume 3 (January to June 1891)

Issue [1] (January 1891)

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Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 1–6.

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To All English-Speaking Folk

Anon

Genre:	Editorial
Subjects:	Imperialism, Darwinism, National Efficiency, Religion, Biblical Authority
Reprints the initial editorial of the Review of Reviews Review of Reviews (1890–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >> for the benefit of new members of 'what is to all intents and purposes a Civic Church' (2). Notes that during the course of the previous year 'Science and photography have both demanded recognition in our columns' (6).

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 7–10.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Natural Imperialism, Ethnography, Extinction, Morality
Discusses dispassionately the 'gradual elimination of the Redskin from the American Continent', and compares the ethical codes of the Sioux tribe with those of the 'supporters and defenders of Mr. Parnell Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846–91) ODNB Close View the register entry >>' (9).

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 34–51.

Can Cancer be Cured? A Visit to Count Mattei: His Challenge to the Faculty. With Letters from Prof. Huxley, Prof. Tyndall, Sir Morell Mackenzie, Prof. Ray Lankester, and Others

Anon

Genre:	Editorial, Polemic / Biography, Travelogue / Editorial, Polemic, Letter
Relevant illustrations:	photo. [12]
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Controversy, Heterodoxy, Boundary Formation, Professionalization, Miracle, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Discovery, Homeopathy, Electricity, Vitalism, Pharmaceuticals, Experiment, Observation, Scientific Practitioners
People mentioned:	Walburga E H Paget, Paget, Countess Walburga Ehrengarde Helena de (d. 1929) ODNB, s.v. Paget, Sir Augustus Berkeley Close View the register entry >> Frederick St G de L B Tucker, Tucker, Frederick St George de Latour Booth (1853–1929) WBI Close View the register entry >> Catherine Booth, Booth (née Mumford), Catherine (1829–90) ODNB Close View the register entry >> Christian F S Hahnemann, Hahnemann, Christian Friedrich Samuel (1755–1843) DSB Close View the register entry >> Herbert L Snow, Snow, Herbert Lumley (1847–1930) WBI Close View the register entry >> Samuel Kennedy Kennedy, Samuel (fl. 1891–1900) RLIN Close View the register entry >>
Polemical defence of 'the "new medical science"' (39) by which Cesare Mattei Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI Close View the register entry >> claims to cure cancer and other chronic ailments. It is a subject that relates closely 'to the vexed question of the credibility of miracles' for, although 'it is no miracle in the supernatural sense', to 'cure a deep-seated virulent cancer is an exploit which is almost as marvellous and unprecedented as the making the blind to see' (35). The medical establishment, however, refuse to acknowledge the testimony of even the most prestigious patients with regard to the efficacy of Mattei's cures, and continue 'hissing "quack" at him from behind their diplomas'. Most patients would nevertheless 'rather be cured of cancer by a quack than left to die according to the rules of and regulations of the College of Physicians Royal College of Physicians Close View the register entry >>'. (37) William T Stead's Stead, William Thomas (1849–1912) ODNB Close View the register entry >> visit to Italy reveals that the secret cure is made up of certain mountain herbs that are supplemented with a 'mysterious [...] electrical principle' which, according to Mattei, is 'the vital principle of the universe, and, as far as I could make out, is cousin-german to the astral fluid of the occultists, or the strange etheric force of Keely Keely, John Ernst Worrell (1827–98) WBI Close View the register entry >>' (39). He then claims that the numerous 'facts [...] which seem to be indisputable' presented in the article 'demand from the medical profession more respectful treatment than [...] hitherto received'. Indeed, 'It will not do for men to come from the uttermost parts of the earth to investigate the secret remedy of Dr. Koch Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >>, a remedy which so far seems to have caused more deaths than cures, to rule the Mattei remedies out of court because they are secret. They may be secret but at least they are not deadly'. (48) Letters received from John Tyndall Tyndall, John (1820–93) DSB Close View the register entry >> and Thomas H Huxley Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB Close View the register entry >> suggest respectively that the efficacy of the remedies must be tested either in the 'scientific journals of the world' (49), or by testing the condition over a period of time of 'at least fifty cases of cancer (if possible more) [...] under the same general conditions' in a single cancer hospital (50). In a further letter Morell Mackenzie Mackenzie, Sir Morell (1837–92) ODNB Close View the register entry >> volunteers his services to such an 'experimental committee' to establish the truth of Mattei's claims (51).

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 58.

The Truth About Dr. Koch and His Poison. By Sir Morell Mackenzie

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Morell Mackenzie Mackenzie, Sir Morell (1837–92) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	eng.
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Vaccination, Error
Institutions mentioned:	Royal College of Surgeons Royal College of Surgeons Close View the register entry >>
While H H Robert Koch's Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >> secret treatment for tuberculosis was 'unduly puffed in November', it has now 'fallen into some degree of disrepute in January'. His proposed remedy is in fact 'a poison infinitely stronger than the concentrated venom of the most poisonous snake' and it should be administered only with extreme caution. Also reproduces a satirical cartoon of a blundering Koch from La Silhouette Silhouette de Nice, La (1886–94) Bibliotheque Nationale Close View the register entry >>.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 64.

The Pigmies of the African Forest

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Henry M Stanley Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Scribner's Magazine Scribner's Magazine (1887–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Imperialism, Ethnography, Human Species

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 67.

In Praise of Madame Blavatsky. By Annie Besant

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Annie Besant Besant (née Wood), Annie (1847–1933) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Lucifer Lucifer (1887–97) Theosophical Review (1897–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Theosophy
People mentioned:	Helena P H Blavatsky Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn (1831–91) ODNB Close View the register entry >>

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 73.

The National Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Samuel Kennedy Kennedy, Samuel (fl. 1891–1900) RLIN Close View the register entry >> , National Review National Review (1883–1900+) Sullivan 1984 Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Analytical Chemistry, Error, Controversy
People mentioned:	Cesare Mattei, Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI Close View the register entry >> Herbert L Snow Snow, Herbert Lumley (1847–1930) WBI Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 73.

The New Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Henry Sidgwick Sidgwick, Henry (1838–1900) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , New Review New Review (1889–97) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Psychical Research
People mentioned:	William James James, William (1842–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 75.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Norman Pearson Pearson, Norman () WIVP Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Evolution, Zoology, Eschatology

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 76.

The Arena

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Nathaniel S Shaler Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1841–1906) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Race, Heredity

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 77–78.

The Forum

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	James W Powell Powell, James William (b. 1840) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Andrew Lang Lang, Andrew (1844–1912) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Robert H Thurston Thurston, Robert Henry (1839–1903) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Anthropology \| Psychical Research \| Railways

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 78.

The Psychical Researchers

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (1882–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Psychical Research
People mentioned:	Leonora E Piper Piper, Leonora E (fl. 1885) WBI Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 79.

North American Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Edmund L G Zalinski Zalinski, Edmund Louis Gray (1849–1909) WBI Close View the register entry >> , North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Military Technology, Progress

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 81.

The Popular Science Monthly.—New York

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Popular Science Monthly Popular Science Monthly (1872–96) Appleton's Popular Science Monthly (1896–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Periodicals, Industry

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 82–83.

The French Reviews

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Cesare Lombroso Lombroso, Cesare (1836–1909) CBD Close View the register entry >> , Nouvelle Revue Nouvelle Revue (1879–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Railways, Imperialism \| Progress, Natural Law

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 86.

The Russian Reviews

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Messenger of Europe Vestnik Evropy [Messenger of Europe ] (1866–1900+) COPAC Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Race, Psychology, Progress

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Issue [2] (February 1891)

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Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 107–16.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Agnosticism, Freethought, Ethnography, Progress, Physiology, Sex
Reports the death of Charles Bradlaugh Bradlaugh, Charles (1833–91) ODNB Close View the register entry >>, the 'militant and aggressive Agnostic' who nevertheless showed 'much of the strength of a "soldier of God", although of the unconscious and unrecognised sort' (112). In a 'tardy but complete homage', Parliament erased the resolution preventing Bradlaugh from taking his seat as he 'lay dying', indicating that the 'passionate prejudice which sought to do service to God by doing injustice to one of His creatures, has long since subsided' (113). Also notes that the Indian Government's proposal to raise the age of consent from ten to twelve years is a 'very moderate concession to physiology and humanity' which is nevertheless being denounced as an attack on 'the religion of the Hindoo' (116).

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 137.

Portrait Gallery of Munificencies. I.—Mr. Horniman, of Horniman's Museum

Anon

Genre:	Miscellaneous
Relevant illustrations:	photo. [2]
Subjects:	Patronage, Museums, Collecting, Amateurism, Commerce, Entomology, Zoology
Praises Frederick J Horniman Horniman, Frederick John (1835–1906) ODNB Close View the register entry >> for entrusting 'the treasures of his museum Horniman Museum Close View the register entry >>' to the public. Observes that he is 'not only a successful City man, but is devoted to scientific pursuits', in particular entomology and zoology. Science and commerce is 'a somewhat rare combination in these days when so many of our merchant princes are absorbed in the race for wealth'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 138–39.

Count Mattei's Remedies and the Cure of Cancer. The Proposed Experimental Hospital

Anon

Genre:	Editorial, Polemic
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Controversy, Heterodoxy, Boundary Formation, Professionalization, Medical Practitioners, Experiment, Observation
Suggests potential hospitals and offers money to help the arrangement of the experimental testing of Cesare Mattei's Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI Close View the register entry >> alleged remedies. In response to the numerous 'applications and inquiries from readers who want to try the medicines', William T Stead Stead, William Thomas (1849–1912) ODNB Close View the register entry >> protests 'I must give notice, once for all, that I am not a physician, and that the REVIEW OF REVIEWS Review of Reviews (1890–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >> office is not a dispensary' (139).

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 147.

The Morgue. Its Secrets and its Statistics

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Statistics, Disease

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 147.

Koch and His Secret. How He Discovered it and What it is

Anon

Genre:	News-Digest
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Vaccination
People mentioned:	H H Robert Koch Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 154.

The Law of Conjugal Attraction. Like Draws to Like

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Hermann Fol Fol, Hermann (1845–92) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Revue Scientifique Revue Scientifique (1871–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Embryology, Breeding, Human Species, Observation, Statistics, Heredity
Relates Fol's observation, made while 'staying at Nice—the Mecca of honeymooning', that couples are attracted to each other by inherited similarities.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 157.

Fifty Years of Sanitary Progress

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Edinburgh Review Edinburgh Review (1802–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Sanitation, Public Health, Progress
People mentioned:	John Simon Simon, Sir John (1816–1904) ODNB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 159.

The Passing of the Redskin. By General Miles

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Nelson A Miles Miles, Nelson Appleton (1839–1925) WBI Close View the register entry >> , North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Race, Natural Imperialism, Extinction

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 164.

The Contemporary Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	George J Romanes Romanes, George John (1848–94) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Ancient Authorities, Biology
People mentioned:	Aristotle Aristotle (384–322 BC) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 165.

The Fortnightly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Alice M Gordon Gordon (née Brandreth), Alice Mary (1850/1–1929) WIVP Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Electricity, Light, Imagination

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 166.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Augustus Jessopp Jessopp, Augustus (1823–1914) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Ornithology

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 168–69.

The Quarterly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Quarterly Review Quarterly Review (1809–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Gender, Universities
People mentioned:	Adam Sedgwick Sedgwick, Adam (1785–1873) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 170.

The Asiatic Quarterly

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Asiatic Quarterly Review Asiatic Quarterly Review (1886–90) Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Ethnography

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 170.

The Scottish Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	John Rhys Rhys, Sir John (1840–1915) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Scottish Review Scottish Review (1882–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Archaeology

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 172.

The Arena

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Alfred R Wallace Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Soloman Schindler Schindler, Soloman (1842–1915) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Psychical Research, Spiritualism \| Natural Law, Population, Human Species

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 173.

The North American Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Edward P Jackson Jackson, Edward Payson (1840–1905) WBI Close View the register entry >> , North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Human Species, Evolution, Progress

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 174.

The Forum

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Oberlin Smith Smith, Oberlin (1840–1926) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Railways, Engineering

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 175–86.

The Book of the Month. Aristotle's Treatise on the Constitution of Athens

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Abstract
Subjects:	Ancient Authorities, Induction, Natural History
Comments that although 'Aristotle Aristotle (384–322 BC) DSB Close View the register entry >> was accused by Bacon Bacon, Francis, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561–1626) DSB ODNB Close View the register entry >> of ignoring induction from observed facts, and trusting over much to deduction à priori [...] this is a strange perversion of the truth'. Indeed, 'Few philosophers have been so careful to base their conclusions on a firm foundation of concrete facts', and Aristotle 'accumulated an immense amount of observation on the structure and habits of animals, in order to write his works on natural history'. (177)

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 193.

The Italian Magazines

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Antonio Stoppani Stoppani, Antonio (1824–91) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Rassegna Nazionale Rassegna Nazionale (1879–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >> , H H Robert Koch Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Revista d'Igiene Revista d'Igiene (cited 1891) RR1/3/2/19 Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Religion, Geology, Creation \| Medical Treatment, Vaccination

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 196–97.

Some Foreign Military Periodicals

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Revue de l'Armée Belge Revue de l'Armée Belge (1890–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Military Technology, Electricity, Light

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Issue [3] (March 1891)

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Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 230–43.

Character Sketch: March. Charles Bradlaugh

Anon / Annie Besant Besant (née Wood), Annie (1847–1933) ODNB
Close View the register entry >>

Genre:	Regular Feature—Editorial, Introduction / Biography
Subjects:	Freethought, Christianity, Unbelief, Controversy, Radicalism, Population, Sex, Publishing
People mentioned:	Charles A Watts Watts, Charles Albert (b. 1835) WBI Close View the register entry >>
Describes the role played by the recently deceased Charles Bradlaugh Bradlaugh, Charles (1833–91) ODNB Close View the register entry >> in 'the bitter conflicts by which an organised freethought party was built up in this country' (235). Asserts that 'To-day, largely because of the work this man has done for liberty, thought and criticism have become so free that they seem a matter of course' (238). Also recounts how the publication of Charles Knowlton's Knowlton, Charles (1800–50) WBI Close View the register entry >> neo-Malthusian The Fruits of Philosophy Knowlton, Charles 1877. The Fruits of Philosophy: An Essay on the Population Question, new edn (with notes [by G. R., i.e. George Drysdale, and a preface by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant]), London: Freethought Publishing Co. Close View the register entry >> led to a celebrated obscenity trial (242).

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 244.

Can Cancer be Cured? The Mattei Experimental Ward at St. Saviour's Hospital

Anon

Genre:	Editorial
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Controversy, Heterodoxy, Boundary Formation, Professionalization, Medical Practitioners, Hospitals, Experiment, Observation
Reports that Cesare Mattei's Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI Close View the register entry >> 'remedies to cure cancer are in a fair way of being scientifically demonstrated or demolished' in an experimental ward at St Saviour's Hospital St Saviour's Hospital, London Close View the register entry >>, London.

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 245.

Jekyll and Hyde in Science. Have we More Souls than One?

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Alfred Binet Binet, Alfred (1857–1911) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Experimental Psychology, Mental Illness, Degeneration, Spiritualism
Considers whether 'the division of consciousness into several parts' is confined only to those suffering 'a nervous affection of the personality'. There is, after all, 'hardly anyone who has not at times been aware of the existence of a double consciousness in his healthiest self'. Also asks whether 'the moral personalities which have been known to coexist, and to alternate without knowledge of each other, may possibly reach the point of communicating with one another, and [...] the question asked orally of one personality of the medium, may be answered by another through the hand which raps on the table, or which holds the so-called inspired pencil'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 253.

Compulsory Childlessness. A Curious Plea by a Doctor of Divinity

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	H S Pomeroy Pomeroy, H S () RR1/3/3a/4 Close View the register entry >> , Andover Review Andover Review (1884–93) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Eugenics, Population, Heredity, Sex, Darwinism
Suggests that the insistence that the state should 'enforce compulsory childlessness upon all criminals, paupers, and victims of heredity disease' ignores the fact that 'the children of the well-regulated family have double the chance of surviving and ultimately becoming parents themselves possessed by the children of the morally and physically unfit (253).

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 262.

Ghosts: What are They? By Professor Alfred Russel Wallace

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Alfred R Wallace Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Psychical Research, Spiritualism, Supernaturalism
Relates how 'Dr. Wallace regards it as proved that the spirits of the so-called dead still live', even though 'he admits that most of their communications are trivial and commonplace'. His 'conclusion on the whole matter is that if we look upon these phenomena not as anything supernatural, but as a perfectly natural and orderly exercise of faculties and powers of the spiritual being [...] we shall find every objection answered and every difficulty disappear'. This explanation, however, 'leaves untouched the great difficulty, which indeed it suggests, viz. why in the nature of things should these communications be so very occasional and accidental?'.

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 275.

The Fortnightly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Hume Nisbet Nisbet, Hume (1849–1921) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Natural Imperialism, Ethnography, Extinction

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 277.

Paternoster Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Paternoster Review Paternoster Review (1890–91) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Vaccination
People mentioned:	H H Robert Koch Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 278.

Arena

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Camille Flammarion Flammarion, Camille (1842–1925) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Joseph R Buchanan Buchanan, Joseph Rhodes (1814–99) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Astronomy \| Bacteriology, Disease, Medical Treatment

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 280.

The Forum

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Henry Maudsley Maudsley, Henry (1835–1918) CBD Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Physiological Psychology, Mesmerism, Mental Illness

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 293.

A Brighton Matteist Home

Anon

Genre:	Announcement
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Heterodoxy
People mentioned:	Cesare Mattei Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 294.

The Book of the Month. With Emin in Equatoria. By Major Casati

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Casati 1891 Casati, Gaetano 1891. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha, trans. by Mrs. J. Randolph Clay (assisted by I. Walter Savage), 2 vols, London: F. Warne Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	photo. [2]
Subjects:	Exploration, Imperialism, Botany, Mapping
Contends that Gaetano Casati's Casati, Gaetano (1838–1902) WBI Close View the register entry >> book is superior to Henry M Stanley's Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904) ODNB Close View the register entry >> account of the same events in Central Africa, because the latter 'is an explorer [...] and not a scientist, while the Major is both'. In Africa Casati gave Emin Pasha Emin Pasha (originally Eduard Schnitzer) (1840–92) CBD Close View the register entry >> 'great assistance with the flora and the fauna', and the colour maps and illustrations in his book 'are extremely interesting both from a scientific and from a general point of view'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 280.

The German Magazines

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Grant Allen Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Die Gesellschaft Gesellschaft, Die (1888–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Darwinism, Socialism
Institutions mentioned:	Fabian Society Fabian Society Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 304–05.

Some Foreign Military Periodicals

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Revista Marittima Revista MarÍtima Brasileira (1881–1900) COPAC Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Military Technology, Electricity, Light

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Issue [4] (April 1891)

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Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 319–31.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Statistics, Population, Breeding, Eugenics, Ethnology, Heredity, Electricity, Engineering
Relates how the 'American people are beginning to look' at the issue of immigration 'from a scientific statistical point of view' (325). They are in 'the position of the owner of one of the finest stud farms in the world for the production of human beings' and do not want 'to spoil their breed of pedigree stock by allowing the introduction of the refuse of murder breeds of Southern Europe' (325–26). The 'English-speaking Republic' must not allow 'this murder strain into the blood of its citizens'. At the same time, however, the unlamented death of 'the Epicurean cynic' Napoleon J C P Bonaparte Bonaparte, Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul (1822–91) CBD Close View the register entry >>, who had 'not an iota' of his uncle's 'military talent' or 'political genius', 'reminds us of the limitations of the law of heredity'. (326) Also praises the 'energy and capacity of Mr. W. H. Preece Preece, Sir William Henry (1834–1913) ODNB Close View the register entry >>, the chief electrician of the Post Office, who last month has opened telephonic communication between Paris and London' (330).

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 358–59.

Experimental Hospital for Cancer Cure. The Mattei Ward at St. Saviour's Hospital

Anon

Genre:	Editorial, Polemic
Relevant illustrations:	photo. [2]
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Controversy, Heterodoxy, Boundary Formation, Professionalization, Medical Practitioners, Hospitals, Experiment, Observation
Reports that 'a small committee' comprising Morell Mackenzie Mackenzie, Sir Morell (1837–92) ODNB Close View the register entry >>, George W Potter Potter, George William (fl. 1888–1914) WBI Close View the register entry >>, and William T Stead Stead, William Thomas (1849–1912) ODNB Close View the register entry >> will oversee the allocation of Cesare Mattei's Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI Close View the register entry >> alleged remedies for cancer to patients at St Saviour's Hospital St Saviour's Hospital, London Close View the register entry >> in order to ensure 'that the experiment is fairly tried' (358).

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 361.

Pure Air and Disease

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Timehri (British Guiana) Timehri (British Guiana) (1882–1900) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Sanitation, Imperialism

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 364.

Edison's Talking Doll. The Phonograph in the Nursery

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Harper's Young People Harper's Young People (1884–91) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Sound, Electricity, Amusement, Futurism
Describes how Thomas A Edison Edison, Thomas Alva (1847–1931) DSB Close View the register entry >> has 'adapted the phonograph to the nursery' by placing 'an exact copy of the real phonograph reduced to one-fourth the size' inside a doll. Once this has been completed he 'will turn his attention to other kinds of phonographic toys, and we may expect [...] menageries noisy with the cries of animals [...] and even little peanut boys who go among the audience and sell pink lemonade'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 368.

The Light of the Fire-Fly

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Alice C Jex-Blake Jex-Blake, Alice Catherine (1855–1929) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Timehri (British Guiana) Timehri (British Guiana) (1882–1900) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Entomology, Light, Wonder, Imperialism

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 369.

Koch and His Modified Snake-Bite

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Benjamin W Richardson Richardson, Benjamin Ward (1828–96) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Asclepiad Asclepiad (1884–95) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Vaccination
Condemns the 'modified snake-bite' being produced by 'Dr. Koch Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >> and the Kochites' and questions whether 'the art of inventing a new disease or series of diseases in order to cure or prevent this disease which seems to occur spontaneously is a true and useful art in its application to medicine'. Insists that 'innoculation is bad sanitation'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 370.

The Last Days of the Earth. By M. Camille Flammarion

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Camille Flammarion Flammarion, Camille (1842–1925) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Astronomy, Entropy, Prognostication, Futurism, Imagination
In an 'interesting imaginative paper' the 'well-known French astronomer' presents a vision of life in the year 2,200,000, when the 'exhaustion of the sun's heat' forces the last remnants of humanity to dwell in 'the heart of equatorial Africa' as a single 'unified race' who 'drop dead of total exhaustion about their twenty-fifth year'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 373.

How to Face the Cold. By Dr. B. W. Richardson

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Benjamin W Richardson Richardson, Benjamin Ward (1828–96) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Asclepiad Asclepiad (1884–95) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Physiology, Medical Treatment

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 375.

Love as a Law of Progress

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Charles R Richet Richet, Charles Robert (1850–1935) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Biological Diversity, Natural Law, Sex, Evolution
Argues that continual reproduction, whether performed as a conscious or unconscious act, is 'the law for all' and the most important factor in the continuance of life throughout the natural world.

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 379.

The National Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Evelyn Pyne Pyne, Evelyn (fl. 1875) WBI Close View the register entry >> , William Goff Goff, William (b. 1841/2) WIVP Close View the register entry >> , National Review National Review (1883–1900+) Sullivan 1984 Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Natural History, Botany \| Astronomy, Heat

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 379–80.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Prince Peter Kropotkin Kropotkin, Prince Peter (1842–1921) CBD Close View the register entry >> , Frederic W H Myers Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843–1901) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Anthropology, Ethnography, Socialism \| Psychical Research, Experimental Psychology, Eschatology

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 393.

The Italian Magazines

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Angelo Mosso Mosso, Angelo (1846–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >> , La Nuova Antologia Nuova Antologia, La (1866–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Natural History, Ornithology

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 395.

The Scandinavian Magazines

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Ellen K S Key Key, Ellen Karolina Sofia (b. 1849) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Dagny Dagny (1886–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Scientific Practitioners, Mathematics, Gender
People mentioned:	Sonya Kovalevsky, Kovalevsky (or Kovalevskaya), Sonya (or Sofya Vasilyevna) (1850–91) DSB Close View the register entry >> Herbert Spencer Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 396.

The Dutch Magazines

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Willem Koster Koster, Willem (b. 1834) WBI Close View the register entry >> , De Gids De Gids (1871–1900+) COPAC Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Medical Treatment, Bacteriology
People mentioned:	H H Robert Koch, Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >> Louis Pasteur, Pasteur, Louis (1822–95) DSB Close View the register entry >> Joseph Lister Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912) DSB ODNB Close View the register entry >>

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Issue [5] (May 1891)

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Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 421–31.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Statistics, Population, Military Technology, War, Alchemy, Progress
People mentioned:	Bridges P Henniker Henniker, Sir Brydges Powell, 4th Baronet (1835–1906) WBI Close View the register entry >>
With it being 'census year with the world', the exponential increase of the global population is being made clear by 'fresh statistical result[s]'. There has been an increase of '48,000,000 in the last ten years, with more to follow. The figures bewilder one'. (424) Also records the death of Helmuth K B F von Moltke Moltke, Helmuth Karl Bernhard Freiherr von (1800–91) CBD Close View the register entry >>, the 'supreme embodiment of the military science of our time', and reflects 'What a contrast between the blustering Mars who was the war god of our ancestors, and this calm, reserved, and studious Alchemist of Victory!' (429).

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 442.

The Mattei Remedies: Cure of Leprosy. Remarkable Reports from India

Anon

Genre:	Editorial, Polemic
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Controversy, Heterodoxy, Boundary Formation, Professionalization, Medical Practitioners, Hospitals, Experiment, Observation
People mentioned:	Cesare Mattei Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI Close View the register entry >>
Notes that 'the prejudice that has hitherto prevailed in the medical profession against the use of the Matteist remedies seems to be giving way'.

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 456.

What is Immortality? The Latest Socialist Protest Against Individualism

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	George M Gould Gould, George Milbry (1848–1922) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Monist Monist (1890–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Eschatology, Socialism, Vitalism, Energy, Soul
An 'illustration of the ferment of Socialist thought that is pervading the human mind', Gould's article 'extends the law of the conservation of force to biological and psychical things' arguing that 'Life is a unity and indivisible, and as inextinguishable as physical force'. Life is 'shared equally by trees and animals as much as by men' and the notion of an immortal individual soul is merely 'the flimsiest of conceits'. Like all 'socialistic schemes', however, this view of life 'destroys all incentive to well-doing'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 457.

Will Morality Survive Religion? By Professor Goldwin Smith

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Goldwin Smith Smith, Goldwin (1823–1910) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Morality, Agnosticism, Sociology
Argues that 'the inevitable result of religious agnosticism will be to bring in an era of immorality' because 'scientific sociology offers but a poor substitute' for the moral sanction previously afforded by religion.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 459.

The Iron and Steel Industries of America. By Sir James Kitson

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	James Kitson Kitson, James, 1st Baron Airedale (1835–1911) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Industry

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 469.

Suicide the Index of Civilisation. Sixty Thousand Suicides a Year in Europe

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Degeneration, Heredity
Attributes the cause of suicides 'in the first place, chiefly to heredity. Suicide with some people is a family peculiarity'. Also notes that 'In all the countries of the civilised world men are becoming more and more weary of the burden of life'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 475.

The Causes of Pauperism. Heredity and Bad Homes

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Richard T Ely Ely, Richard Theodore (1854–1943) WBI Close View the register entry >> , North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Degeneration, Heredity

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 475.

Dust

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	John G McPherson McPherson, John Gordon (1843–c. 1910) WIVP Close View the register entry >> , Longman's Magazine Longman's Magazine (1882–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Bacteriology

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 485.

The Monist

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Cesare Lombroso Lombroso, Cesare (1836–1909) CBD Close View the register entry >> , Monist Monist (1890–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Physiognomy, Heredity

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 486.

The London Quarterly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	London Quarterly Review London Quarterly Review (1853–57) London Review (1858–62) London Quarterly Review (1862–1900+) Altholz, 1989 Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Naturalists
People mentioned:	Philip H Gosse, Gosse, Philip Henry (1810–88) DSB Close View the register entry >> William K Parker Parker, William Kitchen (1823–90) ODNB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 487.

The Forum

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	James W Powell Powell, James William (b. 1840) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Simon Newcomb Newcomb, Simon (1835–1909) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Evolution \| Astronomy

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 489.

The Arena

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Joseph R Buchanan Buchanan, Joseph Rhodes (1814–99) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Psychical Research, Futurism \| Psychical Research, Mesmerism

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 490.

Lippincott

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	John E W Keely Keely, John Ernst Worrell (1827–98) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Lippincott's Monthly Magazine Lippincott's Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science and Education (1868–70) Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science (1871–85) Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (1886–1900+) WaterlooDirectory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Force, Heterodoxy

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 493–94.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Henry Elsdale Elsdale, Henry (b. 1843) WIVP Close View the register entry >> , Archibald Forbes Forbes, Archibald (1838–1900) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Medical Treatment, Physiological Chemistry \| Military Technology

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 495.

Cornhill Magazine

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Grant Allen Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Cornhill Magazine Cornhill Magazine (1860–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Natural History

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 505–06.

Some Foreign Military Periodicals

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Journal of the U.S. Cavalry Association Journal of the U.S. Cavalry Association (1888–93) BUCOP Close View the register entry >> , Journal des Sciences Militaires Journal des Sciences Militaires (1825–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Military Technology

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Issue [6] (June 1891)

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Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 532–42.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Natural Law, Darwinism, Evolution
Reports that Benjamin Waugh's Waugh, Benjamin (1839–1908) ODNB Close View the register entry >> newly founded Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Close View the register entry >> has 'secured the quasi-conditional support of Mr. Herbert Spencer Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB Close View the register entry >>'. The 'great apostle of the doctrine, "let the devil take the hindmost"' and 'very Pope of laissez-faire' is quoted as saying that although 'by protecting the children of bad parents (who are on the average of cases themselves bad), there is some interference with the survival of the fittest, yet it is a defensible conclusion that in the social state philanthropic feeling may, to this extent, mitigate the rigour of the natural law'. (538)

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 548–58.

Character Sketch: June. Madame Blavatsky

Anon / A P Sinnett Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1840–1921) ODNB
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Genre:	Regular Feature—Editorial, Introduction / Biography
Relevant illustrations:	photo. [5]
Subjects:	Materialism, Dissection, Theosophy, Spiritualism, Psychical Research, Charlatanry, Heterodoxy
People mentioned:	Henry S Olcott Olcott, Henry Steel (1832–1907) WBI Close View the register entry >>
The introduction eulogises the recently deceased Helena P H Blavatsky Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn (1831–91) ODNB Close View the register entry >> as one who 'in the midst of a generation that is materialist and mechanical, which probed everything, and dissected even the human heart with a scalpel, did at least succeed in compelling a race of scientists and economists to realise the existence of the conception that all material things are but a passing illusion, and that the spiritual alone is' (549). Sinnett's account of the life of the founder of the Theosophical Society Theosophical Society Close View the register entry >> endeavours to clear her name of the 'injurious accusation' (556) of fraudulence made in Richard Hodgson's Hodgson, Richard (1855–1905) WBI Close View the register entry >> 'famous' Report Hodgson, Richard et al. 1885. 'Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate Phenomena Connected with the Theosophical Society', Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 3, 201–400 Close View the register entry >> to the Society for Psychical Research Society for Psychical Research Close View the register entry >> in 1885 (550). He complains that although Hodgson was 'fatally [...] hoodwinked by the enemies of the Theosophical movement', and his 'methods of inquiry' were 'narrow-minded and unjust', even at 'the present day [...] people who are out of touch with the deep realities of the Theosophical movement' still consider the devotion shown by many towards Blavatsky as 'an unaccountable manifestation of human credulity' (556). These 'unworthy suspicions' mean that 'the grandest metaphysical and scientific theories which are lurking amongst us at the present day are ignored by conventional orthodoxy because they are for the moment associated with a name defiled by vulgar accusations'. It is to be hoped, nevertheless, that they may yet be treated with the proper respect they deserve by 'a more spiritually minded generation than ours'. (557)

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 559.

The Marvels of Matteism. A Remarkable Report of Dr. Arthur Roberts, of Keighley

Anon

Genre:	Editorial, Polemic
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Controversy, Heterodoxy, Boundary Formation, Professionalization, Medical Practitioners, Hospitals, Experiment, Observation
William T Stead Stead, William Thomas (1849–1912) ODNB Close View the register entry >> records his own use of Cesare Mattei's Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI Close View the register entry >> remedies against 'the all-pervading malady of influenza which attacked my household last month [...] and in a couple of days I was rid of the plague'.

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 574.

How I Learned the Language of Monkeys

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Richard L Garner Garner, Richard Lynch (b. 1848) WBI Close View the register entry >> , New Review New Review (1889–97) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Zoology, Sound, Zoological Gardens, Evolution, Descent, Human Species, Comparative Philology
Describes Garner's attempts to use a phonograph to 'learn the monkey tongue very much in the same way men learn the language of a strange race of mankind'. Garner's article argues that the reasoning of monkeys 'differs from that of man in degree, but not in kind', and 'if it be true that man cannot think without words, it must be true of monkeys'. It concludes, 'If the races of mankind may be the progeny of the Simian stock, may not their languages be the progeny of the simian tongue?'.

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 578.

The Power of Ideas Over Matter. A Hypnotic Study by M. Fouillée

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Alfred J E Fouillée Fouillée, Alfred Jules Emile (b. 1838) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Experimental Psychology, Materialism, Immaterialism, Mesmerism

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 590.

The Forum

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Heredity
People mentioned:	August F L Weismann Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold (1834–1914) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 591.

The Arena

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Julian Hawthorne Hawthorne, Julian (1846–1934) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Minot J Savage Savage, Minot Judson (1841–1918) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Spiritualism, Controversy

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 594–95.

The Contemporary Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Auberon E W M Herbert Herbert, Auberon Edward William Molyneux (1838–1906) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Public Health, Environmentalism
People mentioned:	Thomas H Huxley Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 596.

The Fortnightly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Morell Mackenzie Mackenzie, Sir Morell (1837–92) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 597.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Thomas H Huxley Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Victor A H Horsley Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857–1916) DSB ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Creation, Geology, Physical Geography, Religion, Controversy \| Neurology

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 598.

The New Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Grant Allen Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , New Review New Review (1889–97) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Natural Law, Heredity

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 598.

The Pantobiblion

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Pantobiblion Pantobiblion (1891) COPAC Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Periodicals, Internationalism

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 599.

Natural History Papers

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Subjects:	Natural History, Naturalists

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 606.

The Dutch Magazines

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Vragen des Tijds Vragen des Tijds (1875–1900+) COPAC Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Degeneration, Heredity
People mentioned:	Cesare Lombroso Lombroso, Cesare (1836–1909) CBD Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 612–13.

"How to See the Royal Naval Exhibition"

Anon

Genre:	Announcement, Miscellaneous
Subjects:	Exhibitions, Steamships, Military Technology

Review of Reviews, 3 (1891), 616–18.

Some Pictures of the Year. From St. Elizabeth to Home Rule

Anon

Genre:	Miscellaneous
Relevant illustrations:	eng.
Subjects:	Scientific Practitioners
Comments that Thomas H Huxley's Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB Close View the register entry >> 'portrait, by the Hon. John Collier Collier, John (1850–1934) ODNB Close View the register entry >> [reproduced on the same page], is one of the conspicuous pictures of the year' (617).

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