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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 33.
 The Lourdes Miracles Anon
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The London Ivory Sales Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Reports that 'In order to replenish the ivory market of England 15,000 elephants have to be killed every year. The annual slaughter of elephants amounts to 75,000. As the elephant does not begin to breed until it is thirty years old, and the average is one youngster every ten years until he is ninety, the extinction of the elephant is within measurable distance'.
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Temperance Teaching in Schools Anon
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The Mystery of Automatic Handwriting. A Suggestion to Our Readers Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Advises readers to devote 'half-an hour' to their own 'experiment' with the powers of automatic writing, and notes that the 'Spiritualist theory is that the hand is taken possession of or controlled by a disembodied spirit, which is delighted to have this opportunity of communicating once more with the world which it has left'. After considering the testimony of W Stainton Moses
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What the Coming Man Will Eat Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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| Subjects: | Nutrition, Health, Class |
Observes that the 'American working classes [...] are much better fed than the English', although 'even in America the true science of nutrition has by no means yet been matured' and the poor still tend to 'consume too much of the fuel-ingredients of food [...] and too little of the blood and muscle-forming ingredients'.
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Telepathy or Spook? Anon
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The Doom of Lancashire Anon
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Going to School in Monkey Land. By Professor Garner Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Reports that the 'oddest article in the magazines for the month' is by Garner, who 'has spent much time of late in studying monkey language, but [...] is not content with pursuing his favourite occupation in the zoological gardens of Europe and America. Nothing will content him but to go to monkey-land, where he hopes to sit at the feet of the anthropoid apes and learn the secret of their tongue. The scheme in itself is notable enough, but it is raised to the veriest limit of fantasy by the developments which it has undergone in the ingenious brain of the Professor. I should like to hear what Mr. Stanley
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View the register entry >> or any other African traveller would say to the museum of scientific knickknacks by which the Professor proposes to rise superior to the difficulties of African travel'. These items include 'a large wire portable cage which is to serve him as a house', and 'a patent combination catapult gun-barrel which will silently discharge an arrow or a bolt the head of which will be loaded with fifteen drops of prussic acid'. His 'idea of tropical climate may be inferred from his proposing a canvas top and gummed cloth sides in order to keep the drenching deluge out from his sanctum in which he is going to store his phonograph, photographic instruments, telephone, and electric battery'. Predicts that although 'this ingenious professor of Civilisation' may 'make the journey and die in poverty [...] to succeed with all this apparatus, photographic cameras, the concentrated ammonia batteries, and the prussic acid darts, is beyond the reach of Professor Garner or any one else'.
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The First and Last Days of the Broad Gauge Anon
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Horse-Breeding in France Anon
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The Future of New Guinea Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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According to Forbes, 'who has certainly had excellent opportunities for studying the question on the spot', it is 'quite certain that New Guinea can never be colonised by white people. It is not only that white people die there, but before they die they are useless, owing to the climate, which causes great lassitude and nervous irritation'.
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Are You a Paranoiac? Or the Latest Nickname for Cranks Anon Genre: | Announcement | Subjects: | Nomenclature, Mental Illness, Degeneration |
Recognising that the 'available terms of opprobrium, crank, madman, lunatic, etc., have been used so often', Henry S Williams
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 59–60.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Arena Anon
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The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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The Higher Education of Women. A Record of Progress at Home and Abroad Anon Genre: | Essay, News-Commentary, Editorial | Subjects: | Gender, Education, Universities, Physiological Psychology |
Reports that the decision of the University of St Andrews
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The Best Diet for Cancer Patients Lady Paget
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View the register entry >> Genre: | Essay | Subjects: | Nutrition, Health, Medical Treatment, Heterodoxy, Homeopathy |
Recommends the use of 'watercress as a specific against cancer' when taken 'raw for breakfast with whole-meal bread, and also as purée in soup, or made into quinelles with butter and flour'. At the same time, by 'abstaining from animal food the cancer seems to be deprived of its nourishment'. Notes that 'none of my patients had ever given a thought to their diet, except perhaps now and then'. Although there is 'nothing new in these hints', for 'those who cannot have the benefit of consulting a physician, and who wish to use Count Mattei's
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View the register entry >> medicines inwardly [...] by adopting these hints they will find the way cleared for very surprising results'. An editorial notice appended to the foot of the page announces that 'In the next number of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS will be published the report of the Experimental committee' into the efficacy of the Mattei medicines.
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Steamships, Accidents, Disease, Sanitation |
Relates how 'the boiler of the Mont Blanc
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 127–41.
Character Sketch: August. Sir Charles W. Dilke Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Morality, Psychology, Heredity |
After detailing how Charles W Dilke
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 143.
[The Origin of Pleasure and Pain] Anon
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How We Feel When We Die. Two Remarkable Experiences Anon
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Behold This Dreamer Cometh. Mr. Frederick Greenwood in a New Role Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Recounts Greenwood's sympathetic treatment of the 'occult phenomena connected with dreams, sub-consciousness, etc.' (148), and rejoices at the rather surprising prospect of Greenwood 're-enforcing the army of those who make war against the materialist superstition, which refuses to admit the clearest possible evidence as to the existence of things which cannot be accounted for by their hypothesis'. Richardson, on the other hand, continues to insist that dreams are only 'explainable on physical grounds'. (149)
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The Farmer's Friends and Foes. Wings Versus Feet Anon
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How to Cross Africa in a Balloon. Sea to Sea in Three Weeks Anon
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What Shall School Girls Read? Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Anon. 1887. The World at Home: A New Series of
Geographical Readers, Adapted to the Latest Code Standard 3, Royal School
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Lore for Children, London: Bell and Daldy
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1881. Sun, Moon, and Stars: A Book for Beginners, London: Seeley,
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Stawell 1885. The Story of the Heavens, London, Paris, New
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Wanted, a Phonograph for Thought. The Latest American Suggestion Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 172.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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The Arena Anon
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The Monist Anon
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The Nouvelle Revue Anon
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Balance Against Force. The Story of the Girl Who Baffled the Tsar Anon Genre: | Essay | Subjects: | Class, Supernaturalism, Magnetism, Force, Display, Experiment |
Details a 'séance' in Copenhagen attended by Tsar Alexander III
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View the register entry >> of Russia and other members of European royalty, in which the 'audience took an active part in the performance'. As well as experiments in 'thought-reading', there was 'quite a novelty, in the shape of Miss Bentley's
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View the register entry >> experiments dealing with so-called magnetic phenomena'. Before commencing, Bentley informed her royal audience that 'no mystery was to be made about them, but that the experiments would be exhibited in order to show how force could be diverted without the apparent employment of a counter force'. (182) As part of 'the "lifting test"', Bentley, 'by merely placing a hand on each side of the back of a chair, with the thumbs slightly curved', elevated a heavy flat-bottomed chair which held 'one Emperor, two future Kings, and one King in posse. Never was there so much royalty upon one single chair before'. At the conclusion of these experiments, the 'various royal ladies present [...] one and all wished to see if they were "magnets"'. It was 'whilst the magnetic craze was at its height in London' that Bentley's 'first actual test experiments were given' in the home of Henry D P Labouchere
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View the register entry >>, who had 'invited a number of distinguished folk to witness her demonstrations, by natural means, of the phenomena for which supernatural claims were then being made. Miss Bentley completely knocked the bottom out of the supernatural theory, and, in doing so, was of great service to the cause of common-sense'. (183)
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Can Cancer be Cured? Report of the Mattei Investigation Committee Anon Genre: | Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Medical Treatment, Heterodoxy, Homeopathy, Quackery, Controversy, Boundary Formation |
Reports that the 'lamented death' of Morell Mackenzie
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View the register entry >> being appointed as the new chairman. However, when certain members of the new committee defended the expediency of its formation in the medical press, the Matteist doctors mistakenly assumed that the committee's rules had been violated and 'refused to continue their treatment any longer under the observation of the Committee'. Accordingly, the committee produced a draft report of its findings up to that point and 'thereupon dissolved'. The report concludes unambiguously that 'sufficient evidence has been obtained to convince the Committee of the altogether inert character of the so-called cure', and that there is nothing 'which tends to differentiate it favourably from other so-called "cancer cures", which have invariably been found in practice to fail'. (195) In a letter responding to the report, the Matteist doctors point out that 'while not asserting that any cures have been effected, the patients have experienced relief, and one and all are persuaded that they are better after having used the medicines'. Noting that this is 'a somewhat lame and inconclusive result to be arrived at after all the trouble that has been taken', suggests that 'our readers can form their own opinion of the evidence which I put before them'. (196)
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Cave Dwellers of the Riviera Anon
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Relevant illustrations: | map | Subjects: | Disease, Sanitation, Public Health, Christianity, Rationalism, Experimental Psychology, Mesmerism |
Cholera is now raging across the European mainland, and because 'the Russian Jews [...] fleeing from the Muscovite Pharaoh' to North America must by necessity 'cross England from Grimsby to Liverpool, no sanitary precautions will suffice to keep out' the disease from English shores. However, although it 'sounds paradoxical', the 'threatened visitation is a blessing in disguise. The Asiatic Cholera is the great Sanitary Inspector of Nature. He may be regarded as the author of modern sanitation, and whenever the zeal of the sanitarian burns low, the Cholera goes his rounds and revives the faith of mankind in measures of public health. There can be little doubt that the Cholera saves far more lives than the few whom it sacrifices'. Indeed, the 'beneficent scourge' is a 'striking illustration of the immense utility of sensationalism in the economy of the universe', in that, notwithstanding the efforts of 'journalists [who] exhaust their resources in striking headlines as if to get up a cholera panic', cholera is, in fact, 'really one of the least deadly of diseases'. (215) Also notes that 'there is a good deal more rationality about many of the features of Roman Church' than Protestants are willing to allow. For instance, the 'researches of psychologists, the phenomena of hypnotism, the strange new science of psychometry, are bringing to light the foundations upon which many much-contested Catholic doctrines really rest. Psychometry gives a rational basis for the veneration of relics, and it is being discovered there is more to be said for prayers for the dead, pilgrimages, and many other elements of faith and practice which Protestants regard as most irrational'. (221)
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Character Sketch: August. The New Cabinet Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Psychology |
Justifies the departure from the usual format of the monthly character sketch by observing that 'After the curious evidence which psychological science has adduced to prove the multiplex character of the personality of the individual, it is not difficult to conceive of the Cabinet [of William E Gladstone's
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Why Do Dogs Wag Their Tails? Anon
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Off to Monkey Land. A Visit From Mr. Garner Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Reports that Garner, in London while having a phonograph made, has visited the offices of the Review of Reviews. He comes across as 'a tough customer' having fought both with the Confederate army and 'in the plains campaigning against the Indians'. He is also 'an enthusiast who lives for nothing except to master the Simian tongue'. Both these qualities will be invaluable during his proposed researches in the 'heart of a Central African forest'. After 'studying monkeys in all the Zoological Gardens in America', he has at last visited the Zoological Society Gardens
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Is Spiritualism of the Devil? Yes, by a Catholic Anon
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The Truth About the Vampire Bat Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Protests that 'the so-called vampire bat is a grossly-maligned creature' which is in reality 'a strict vegetarian when it is not eating insects'. While these relatively harmless creatures are both feared and persecuted because of their name, there are 'many blood-sucking bats which are objectionable enough to be called vampires, although, instead of bearing that name, they are called Desmodus rufus'.
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The Lost Son of Darwinism. A Lament Over Mr. A. R. Wallace Anon
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Can the Channel Be Bridged? Anon
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Some New Inventions Anon
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A Grim Buffalo Story Anon
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The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Fortnightly Review Anon
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The Forum Anon
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Some Remarks on Matteism and its Critics. With Special Reference to the Cancer Committee's Report Anon Genre: | Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Heterodoxy, Homeopathy, Quackery, Controversy, Boundary Formation |
Accepts that George W Potter
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View the register entry >> medicines for the cure of cancer are 'justified in lifting up their horn on high and claiming all the credit which belongs to those who have subjected a very important claim to a scientific test and found it wanting'. At the same time, however, it is far from being proven that 'Matteism is a fraud, a delusion, and a snare', and the doctors of the committee are not justified in advising the public to 'abjure for ever all reliance upon his oddly named globules and electricities'. Indeed, it is 'curious how unscientific some scientific men become when they give rein to the passion of intolerance'. After all, it is more than probable that the orthodox practices of surgery would cure no more cancer patients than the application of heterodox remedies in a straight contest of 'Matteism versus the knife'. (284) The best practical advice to a cancer patient is, as soon as any lump is discovered, to let a doctor 'cut it out root and branch, even if there is a doubt whether it is cancer [....] it would be foolish to delay in order to try Matteism or any other 'ism, orthodox or heterodox'. If, on the other hand, the disease is at an already advanced stage, Mattei's homeopathic remedies can at least 'diminish the local pain' and 'improve [...] general health', and, as such, they should not be 'denounced as mere fraudulent quackery'. In fact, when the remedies are used in cases of 'Heartburn and indigestion' the sickness rapidly disappears 'as if banished by a magic wand'. Concludes that the 'moral of the whole controversy is that there ought to exist a competent, permanent, scientific tribunal which would undertake the experimental observation of the operation of all remedies whatever'. (285)
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The Book of the Month. "The Heritage of the Kurts". By Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Chr. Collin
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Observes that 'the scientific spirit pervades' Bjørnsterne M Bjørnson's
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Disease, Sanitation, Public Health, Medical Practitioners, Government |
Reports that during the outbreak of cholera, London was 'placed, as it were, in a sanitary state of siege': the city was divided into 'twenty districts' each of which was commanded by a 'medical officer'. It was ordered that the 'moment a man was down with the cholera the police were to be notified, and as soon as the notification was received a telephonic message to the [sanitary] headquarters brought the sanitary column to the house. The patient was whisked off to hospital, all moveables were carried off to the disinfecting station, and the sanitary column washed and scrubbed the room and covered it with disinfectants'. At times when 'life is at stake and you are at close grips with death, the social organism ignores everything but the promptings of self-preservation'. Even 'personal liberty' must be temporarily given up, and 'the despotism of doctors, like drumhead court martials, is sometimes an inevitable and indispensable evil'. (319)
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An Agnostic Eirenicon. From Mr. Harrison to Mr. Huxley Anon
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A Bicycle Railway Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Cassell's Family Magazine
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| Subjects: | Invention, Railways, Futurism |
Describes a 'new railway' which 'consists of a continuous fence solidly built, with a rail on the top bar, over which the bicyclist drives a kind of upside-down machine with a small wheel behind him and a slightly larger one in front'. With this contraption 'each passenger is his own locomotive'.
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 356.
Is Spiritualism of the Devil? Yea, Verily, Says the Catholic Church Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 357.
Some More Psychical Wonders. From the Western World Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 360.
How to Cure the Typhoid Fever Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 371.
Physical Exercise for Women Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 376.
Some Shark Stories Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed
Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 380.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 381.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 382–83.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 383.
The Forum Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 390–96.
Ought Mrs. Maybrick to be Tortured to Death? An Appeal From North America, and a Confession From South Africa Anon Genre: | Editorial, Polemic | Subjects: | Crime, Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Expertise |
Observes that the toxicological evidence of Charles M Tidy
Tidy, Charles Meymott
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Issue [5] (November 1892) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 435–47.
Character Sketch: November. Tennyson Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Spiritualism, Heterodoxy, Boundary Formation |
In reflecting on the recently deceased laureate, insists that 'no one can read "In Memoriam"
[Tennyson,
Alfred] 1850. In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon
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Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 462.
Astrology up to Date Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 463.
The Positivist Eirenicon. By Professor Huxley Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 465.
The Bicycle as a Revolutionist Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Sylvester Baxter
Baxter, Sylvester
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| Subjects: | Transport, Electricity, Futurism |
While the 'rage for railway construction has for years absorbed all the road-making attention of Americans; now they are beginning to devote their attention to the value of high roads'. Perfectly 'smooth pavements will follow, constructed upon the most scientific principles'. Predicts that 'the bicycle contains in itself the element of a new type of vehicle, which will come into universal use, with the supplanting of animal traction by electricity'. Soon 'Multitudes of light vehicles of various sizes impelled by electricity will speed noiselessly in every direction. All the noise and rattle of the street practically will vanish, and with it much of the nervousness of city dwellers'.
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 464.
Sounds and Colours Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 477.
Is the World Getting Overcrowded? Where People Go, and Why Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 479.
Ostrich Dancing Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 482.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 482–83.
The National Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 490.
The Dublin Review Anon
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Issue [6] (December 1892) | Expand
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 557.
A Sample of Agnostic Polemics. Mr. Frederic Harrison to Professor Huxley Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 565.
Waste Products Made Useful. By Lord Playfair Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Lyon Playfair (1st Baron Playfair)
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| Subjects: | Industrial Chemistry, National Efficiency |
Suggests that by the 'utilisation first of sewage and then of old bones' in the production of phosphorous for matches, 'every man, woman, and child in the country saves seventy-eight hours a year, or ten working days, in the quickness with which he can strike a light'. Also notes that in 'the utilisation of waste substances it is very odd that some of the nicest things come out of the nastiest materials. For instance, fusel oil is the stinking product of the distillation of spirits. It is, however, utilised to make oil of grape and oil of cognac'.
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 568.
How Far Have We Got? The Conclusions of the Psychical Researchers Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 570.
Hallucinations and Mental Suggestions Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 571.
How to Get Rid of London Fog Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
National Review
National Review
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Sullivan 1984
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| Relevant illustrations: | eng. | Subjects: | Pollution, Invention, Antiseptics, Railways | Publications cited: |
Hartnett 1892
Hartnett, John
Joseph 1892. Antiseptic Dry-Air Treatment of Consumption: A
Practical Treatise Dealing with the Origin of Consumption, How it Can be
Prevented and Successfully Treated by Rational and Safe Means, 2nd edn,
London: Churchill
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Although 'still satisfied with the range which Messrs. Leggott put in my house' [see Anon, 'The Exorcism of the Smoke Fiend; Or, How to Get Rid of the Plague of Fog', Review of Reviews, 5 (1892), 298–99], the 'fog fiend' that has afflicted the capital 'is not going to be driven out by only one method of attack'. Suggests that John J Hartnett's
Hartnett, John Joseph
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View the register entry >> 'antiseptic drying air treatment of consumption' can also be 'utilised for the purpose of filtering the atmosphere in public buildings. It operates on the principle of a fan with a small electric motor. Its inventor is sanguine that, by its use, he will be able to make the air of the Underground Railway perfectly fresh and sweet'.
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 571.
"Know Thyself!" Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 573.
The Future of Electric Motors Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 575.
The Forum Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 576.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 580–81.
The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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Review of Reviews, 6 (1892), 589–91.
A Revolution in Printing and in Journalism. An Interview with the Revolutionist Anon Genre: | Dialogue | Relevant illustrations: | eng. | Subjects: | Invention, Machinery, Engineering, Medical Treatment |
The interviewee Joseph J Byers
Byers, Joseph J
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View the register entry >> explains how the "Feister" Patent Printing Machine 'has solved the problems with which all printing engineers have been grappling in vain for the last twenty years. It will print at newspaper speed from an endless web with the precision of a flat machine. It will not only do this, but it will fold, paste, cut, and deliver at the same time' (589). In the space of a year, two machines 'will be able to turn out 180 millions of Mother Seigel's Syrup pamphlets', and, Byers avers confidently, 'there is no limit [....] to the world's consumption of patent medicine pamphlets' (591).
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