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Issue [1] (July 1893) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 3–9.
 The Progress of the World Anon
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Character Sketch: July. Admiral Sir George Tryon, of H.M.S. "Victoria" Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Steamships, Military Technology, Accidents, Heroism, Romanticism, Feeling | People mentioned: |
George Tryon
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Notes that it is 'the fashion among some writers to decry the modern ironclad, as if it were a mere clumsy ugly box of machinery and boilers, a thing from which all sentiment and romance had departed', but insists that as 'a matter of fact, these great marine monsters do succeed in inspiring the same kind of sentiment in the men who sail them and who fight them as did the old wooden battle-ships'. Furthermore, the sinking of HMS Victoria
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 23.
The Limitation of the American Family. The Decline in the Birth-Rate Anon
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"The Size of the Sea" Anon
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Prices Current for Wild Beasts Anon
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On the Edge of the Future. Problems in Steam and Electricity Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Robert H Thurston
Thurston, Robert Henry
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, Engineering Review
Engineering Review
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Moffett, Cleveland Langston
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| Subjects: | Steam-power, Engineering, Progress, Skill, Steamships, Electricity, Miracle, Futurism |
Claims that the 'culmination of human ingenuity and skill seems to be presented in the new ocean steamers', and reports the notions of Alexander G Bell
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What Edison is After Now. Two New Inventions—Iron and Coal Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 41.
Flying by Sea and by Sky. What We are Coming to Next Anon
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Lesseps in Ruin Anon
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The Last Days of the World. By Camille Flammarion Anon
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Lady Doctors Anon
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Witch Burning in France. A Chapter in the Annals of Crime Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Nouvelle Revue
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| Subjects: | Spiritualism, Scientific Practitioners, History of Science |
Notes how the 'history of mediæval spiritualism' shows that 'Not only the credulous and the ignorant, but some of the most noted scientific and medical authorities of the seventeenth century evidently took the spirits au grand sérieux'.
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 49.
Professor Huxley Among the Prophets. Mrs. Besant on This "Daniel Come to Judgement" Anon
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Why Not Kill Consumptives at Once? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 52.
Ice Laid on Like Gas! The Latest American Notion Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 55.
The God of Science. The Latest Attempt to Define Deity Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 57.
"Borderland". Contents of the First Number of the New Quarterly Anon Genre: | Editorial, Literary Notice | Subjects: | Periodicals, Publishing, Supernaturalism, Psychical Research, Materialism, Astrology | People mentioned: |
Julia A Ames
Ames, Julia A
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Hudson [1893]
Hudson, Thomson
Jay [1893]. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis
for the Systematic Study of Hypnotism, Spiritism, Mental Therapeutics,
etc., Chicago: A. C. McClurg; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Janet, Pierre
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 58.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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The New Review Anon
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Glaciers and Valleys Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 62.
The Secret of Youth in Age Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 63.
The Arena Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 67.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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The Miracle of the Maid of Orleans; or, The Evidence of the Supernatural in History Anon Genre: | Travelogue, Essay, Polemic | Subjects: | Miracle, Supernaturalism, Rationalism, Scientific Naturalism, Instruments, Microscopy, Spectroscopy |
Complains that 'so-called supernatural or miraculous phenomena' are 'hateful to the narrower scientists' who consistently refuse to 'recognize the birth of the Infinite Invisible, of the nature of which we know about as much by our microscopes and spectroscopes and other meteyards of science as the dwellers on the European coastline knew in Jeanne's
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), Saint ('The Maid of
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 97–101.
The New Books of the Month Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Haweis 1893
Haweis, Hugh
Reginald 1893. Sir Morell Mackenzie; Physician and Operator: A
Memoir Compiled and Edited from Private Papers and Personal Reminiscences,
London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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| Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Publishing, Monographs, Controversy |
Relates how the biography of the late Morell Mackenzie
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Issue [2] (August 1893) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Religion, Disease, Bacteriology, Fear, Sanitation, Mining, Accidents, Physical Geography, Societies, Gender |
Reports the 'outbreak of cholera at Mecca' which was caused because the 'well Zem Zem, the sacred fountain' of Islam, from which every pilgrim to the holy city must drink as much as they can, is 'a seething mass of microbes and water'. Reflects that it is 'very sad that Moslems should thus make religion a great cholera propagator', although it is 'on the whole less contemptible than the conduct of that American congregation which, from its slavish dread of infection, has this year substituted for the communion cup which passed from lip to lip an arrangement by which each communicant is supplied with a separate wine-glass for his exclusive use'. (120) Also relates how the 'Royal Geographical Society
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 135–44.
Character Sketch: August. Lord Kelvin, P.R.S. J Munro
Munro, John
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View the register entry >> Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [5] | Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Popularization, Photography, Race, Genius, Heroism, Mathematics, Heat, Electricity, Engineering, Patents, Telegraphy, Invention, Instruments, Electromagnetism, Oceanography, Instrument-makers, Navigation, Magnetism, Providence, Expertise, Error, Measurement, Natural Philosophy, Discovery, Physics, Dynamics, Statics, Language, Reading, Nomenclature, Textbooks, Authorship, Matter Theory, Geology, Darwinism, Astronomy, Entropy, Politics, Conservatism, Patronage, Status, Universities, Lecturing, Metaphysics | People mentioned: |
Cyrus W Field,
Field, Cyrus West
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Michael Faraday,
Faraday, Michael
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Cromwell F Varley,
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood
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H C Fleeming Jenkin,
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming
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James P Joule,
Joule, James Prescott
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Philipp Reis,
Reis, Philipp
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George B Airy,
Airy, Sir George Biddell
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Peter G Tait,
Tait, Peter Guthrie
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Hermann von Helmholtz
Helmholtz, Hermann von
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Munro, John 1891.
Heroes of the Telegraph, London: Religious Tract Society
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Galton 1874
Galton,
Francis 1874. English Men of Science: Their Nature and
Nurture, London: Macmillan & Co.
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Thomson, Sir William (Baron Kelvin of
Largs)
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View the register entry >> of Science—or if the older fashion be more to his taste—the Napoleon of natural philosophy' (144). Notes, however, that he is 'something of a "dark horse" to the English public', and remains largely 'unknown to the masses'. In fact, if we look in 'the windows of London photographers' we 'may hope to see a muscular athlete like Sandow
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View the register entry >>, but we shall look in vain for an intellectual giant such as Lord Kelvin'. Part of the reason for this is that 'his residence in Glasgow has withdrawn him from the vortex of metropolitan publicity'. (135) In discussing the 'pretty stiff reading' which students encounter in books like Elements of Natural Philosophy
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William and
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View the register entry >> and some other great writers, seems to have devised a peculiar style of his own to express the workings of his own mind', and, after giving some examples of 'elaborate [...] Kelvinese', points out that he also has 'a propensity—I had almost said a "craze"—for coining' the new words which 'become necessary in the progress of a science', although many of these neologisms fail to be 'apt, brief and euphonious without ambiguity of meaning' (139). Upon his elevation to the peerage in 1892 'electricians were at first inclined to regret the loss of the familiar "Thomson"' in favour of the Kelvin which he took from the name of 'a beautiful and romantic stream' which passes alongside the University of Glasgow
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View the register entry >> Home Rule Bill on some principle of Conservative dynamics or rather statics' (140). Suggests that a 'wise Providence has imbued the soul' of Thomson with many attributes (138), and concludes that 'this man was created for science ...he is a prophet or a seer with a divine mission to reveal the physical laws' (142).
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The Mattei Treatment of Cancer Cases. Report on the Second Year's Test Anon
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 149.
The Next Step in Medicine. Cure by Suggestion Anon
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Etheromania Anon
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What We Have Come To. The Day Dream of an Astronomer Anon
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Madame Blavatsky Anon
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Flies and Infection Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 173.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Contemporary Review Anon
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The Fortnightly Review Anon
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The New Review Anon
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The Edinburgh Review Anon
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A Blind Typewriter Anon
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The Book of the Month. The Story of Sir Richard and Lady Isabel Burton Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Burton 1893
Burton, Isabel
1893. The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, 2 vols, London: Chapman
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Burton, Sir Richard Francis
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Issue [3] (September 1893) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Natural Imperialism, Extinction, Environmentalism, Medical Practitioners, Psychology |
Reports that the 'diplomatists' arbitrating the contested ownership of the Behring Sea have made the 'unanimous recommendation [...] that rigorous measures should be taken at once to protect the fur seal from the destruction which threatens to deprive ladies of sealskin jackets before the close of the century'. Observes that it 'will be odd if a Pacific Concert should come into existence for the preservation of the seal as the European Concert was created to secure the preservation of the Ottoman Empire. Of the two the seal is much the worthier'. (239) Also records the death of 'Dr. Charchot
Charcot, Jean-Martin
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How to be Young Though Old. The Experience of Septuagenarians Anon
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"The Likeness of the Perfect Man". A Glimpse of What He Was and What He May be Anon
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The Logic of the Mole. On "The Delusions Known as Religions" Anon
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Should Hypnotism be Monopolised by M.D.s? Anon
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The Medical Education of Women Anon
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A Yorkshire Naturalist Anon
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The Engine of the Future Anon
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How the World will End. An Astronomer's Prediction Anon
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The Training of Wild Beasts Anon
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A Lady Geologist. Miss Maria M. Ogilvie, D.Sc. Anon Genre: | Biography | Subjects: | Education, Universities, Gender, Palaeontology, Geology, Fieldwork, Biology | People mentioned: |
Maria M Ogilvie Gordon,
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Charlotte A Scott,
Scott, Charlotte Angas
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Karl A von Zittel,
Zittel, Karl Alfred von
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Ferdinand von Richthofen
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How to Stop River Pollution Anon
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Mr. Chamberlain and His Orchids Anon
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All the Ologies Anon
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Motor Engines for Cycles Anon
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The Contemporary Review Anon
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Issue [4] (October 1893) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Positivism, Politics, Experiment, Disease, Sanitation, War, Science Communication, Psychical Research |
Reports that Brazil was recently made 'the scene of a crucial experiment' in which a 'little knot of Positivist professors' founded 'a republic, in which the whole political system of Auguste Comte
Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier
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Character Sketch. Lobengula, The King of the Matabele Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [3] | Subjects: | Race, Anthropology, Ethnography, Photography, Soul, Imperialism, Supernaturalism, Technology |
Suggests that with the details of 'savage' peoples given in 'South African Blue Books' it is 'as if we had the seventh century suddenly resuscitated in order that it might be photographed by the camera of the nineteenth century' (369). Explains, however, that the photograph of King Lobengula Khumalo
Lobengula Khumalo, King of the Ndebele
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View the register entry >> reproduced on the frontispiece of the article is a 'coveted negative [....] brought from Matabeleland by a recent traveller, who [...] preserves a prudent silence as to how he got it' because Lobengula usually refuses to be photographed claiming to believe 'that part of his soul [would] be taken away with the picture' (370). Also reports how some inhabitants of Matabeleland were 'completely bowled [...] over' by the telephone shown to them by English missionaries, believing that 'a machine which could talk [...] even when those who talked were a mile from each other' must be made by 'witchcraft' (377).
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Pessimism as a Religion. A Fin De Siècle Ecclesiastes Anon
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"The Female Howard". What an Invalid Woman Did for the World Anon
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The Burmese Slowly Dying Out Anon
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The Future of Agriculture. Co-Operation Farming in France Anon
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Anti-Christian Aspects of Theosophy Anon
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Emma Seiler. Scientist and Musician Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Werner's Magazine
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Seiler, Emma
1868. The Voice in Singing, trans. by [W. H. Furness], Philadelphia: J. B.
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Seiler, Emma
1875. The Voice in Speaking, trans. by
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Helmholtz, Hermann von
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García, Manuel
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Are Animals Immortal? Anon
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Why Cancer Increases Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Hugh P Dunn
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| Subjects: | Disease, Statistics, Health, Ageing, Population, Heredity, Microbiology |
Describes the 'paradox that one of the causes of the increase of cancer is the general increase of health in the community!' which results in a larger elderly population. Also suggests that it 'seems growingly likely' that cancer 'proceeds from a microbe', and 'by the analogy of tuberculosis' it might therefore be found to be 'infectious and contagious'.
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An Electric Whirlpool Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Disease, Electricity, Medical Treatment, Machinery, Instruments, Invention, Instrument-makers, Intellectual Property, Controversy |
Notes that Arsène D'Arsonval
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View the register entry >>. Professor D'Odiardi communicated a description of the apparatus in 1892 to a French engineer with a view to having the instrument communicated to the Academy
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View the register entry >>. Nothing more was heard of it until this year when M. D'Arsonval described a machine closely resembling that of Professor D'Odiardi, as if it had been an invention of his own'.
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Mr. Keely's System of Philosophy Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous, Notes | Subjects: | Anti-Scientism, Philosophy, Heterodoxy, Machinery, Force, Energy, Discovery, Genius |
Prints a previously unpublished 'prefatory note' by Grant Allen
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Moore, Clara Sophia
Jessup Bloomfield 1893. Keely and His Discoveries: Aerial
Navigation, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
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The Fortnightly Review Anon
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The Contemporary Review Anon
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The New Review Anon
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The Arena Anon
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The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 507.
Two Solutions of the Negro Problem. Manual Training or Miscegenation? Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Herbert Welsh
Welsh, Herbert
(1851–1941)
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, Educational Review
Education
(1890–91)
Educational Review
(1891–1900+)
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, Wardon A Curtis
Curtis, Wardon A
(b. 1867)
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, American Journal of Politics
American Journal of Politics
(1892–94)
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| Subjects: | Race, Education, Population, Breeding, Sex, Morality |
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 508–09.
The Biggest Wheel in the World Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 516.
The Three Parties Bound for the Pole: Their Chances of Success Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Adolphus W Greely
Greely, Adolphus Washington
(1844–1935)
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, North American Review
North American Review
(1815–1900+)
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Fridtjof Nansen,
Nansen, Fridtjof
(1861–1930)
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Frederick G Jackson,
Jackson, Frederick George
(1860–1938)
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Robert E Peary
Peary, Robert Edwin
(1856–1920)
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 520.
Masholand and Its Inhabitants Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 523.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 527.
The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
Pierre E M Berthelot
Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcellin
(1827–1907)
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, C Melinaud
Melinaud, M. C
(fl. 1893)
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, Revue des Deux Mondes
Revue des Deux Mondes
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| Subjects: | Chemistry, Magic, Astrology, History of Science | Physiology, Feeling | Publications cited: |
Darwin 1872
Darwin, Charles
Robert 1872. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and
Animals, London: John Murray
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 529.
The Edinburgh Review Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh Review
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Henry H Howorth
Howorth, Sir Henry Hoyle
(1842–1923)
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Howorth 1893
Howorth, Henry
Hoyle 1893. The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: A Second Appeal
to Common Sense from the Extravagance of Some Recent Geology, 2 vols,
London: S. Low, Marston & Company, Limited
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 530.
The Scottish Review Anon Genre: | Review, Abstract | Publications reviewed: |
D Gath Whitley
Whitley, D Gath
(fl. 1893)
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, Scottish Review
Scottish Review
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Henry H Howorth
Howorth, Sir Henry Hoyle
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Howorth 1893
Howorth, Henry
Hoyle 1893. The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: A Second Appeal
to Common Sense from the Extravagance of Some Recent Geology, 2 vols,
London: S. Low, Marston & Company, Limited
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 531.
The Arena Anon
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The Forum Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 541–42.
What is Education? A Lecture by Walter Wren Walter Wren
Wren, Walter
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View the register entry >> Genre: | Address, Discourse | Subjects: | Education, Schools, Natural Theology, Botany, Amusement, Anti-Scientism |
Insists that the 'study of natural science should come before all others. The works of God are better worth studying than the thoughts of men', and suggests that subjects like botany 'should be taught every year during the summer months; all children love flowers and pictures and what they call pretty things'. Warns, however, that 'in most public schools natural sciences are boycotted or neglected'. (542)
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Periodicals, Imperialism, Animal Behaviour, Universities, Progress | Institutions mentioned: | University of Oxford
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Complains that the 'jabbering of monkeys in a bamboo tope could hardly be more inane than most of the comment which has been printed in Fleet Street upon South African affairs', and notes that it is fortunate that 'the chatter of the simian race is not one of the determining factors in the evolution of our Imperial destinies' (581). Reports that the appointment of the successors to the late Benjamin Jowett
Jowett, Benjamin
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Caird, Edward
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 598–607.
Character Sketch. Thomas Alva Edison Charles D Lanier
Lanier, Charles Day
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View the register entry >> Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [5] | Subjects: | Nationalism, Machinery, Invention, Steam-power, Electricity, Genius, Reading, Mathematics, Chemistry, Education, Telegraphy, Railways, Patents, Discovery, Laboratories, Light, Commerce, Libraries, Specialization, Colleges, Professionalization, Sound, Music, National Efficiency, Measurement, Energy, Futurism, Transport, Aeronautics, War, Neurology | People mentioned: |
Edward H Johnson
Johnson, Edward Hibberd
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Asserts that America is 'a nation of mechanics and inventors', and that Thomas A Edison
Edison, Thomas Alva
(1847–1931)
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Newton, Sir Isaac
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Newton, Isaac
1687. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, Londini: Jussu
Societatis Regiae ac Typis Josephi Streater
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View the register entry >>, with the entirely logical result of becoming deeply and permanently disgusted with pure mathematics'. (599) After showing an early interest in chemistry and telegraphy, Edison became a railway telegraph operator and then made his fortune in New York, as well as 'a national reputation', after patenting 'an improved stock printer'. In an interview with Lanier, Edison discusses his working methods and experimental procedures, as well as the fact that, although he enjoys the process of inventing, when an invention 'is all done and is a success, I can't bear the sight of it. I haven't used a telephone in ten years, and I would go out of my way any day to miss an incandescent light'. (601) Relates Edison's struggles against the 'race of professional sharks' (602) who make it impossible for an inventor to make sufficient money from patents alone and have forced him into 'the stern régime of the business world', even though 'the inventor has an intolerance of forms in business, as in society' (603) and this 'natural disregard for the forms and minutiae of business affairs has led to anything but a path of roses for Mr. Edison in his financial operations'. Nevertheless, Edison's 'achievements cannot be separated from commerce [....] He is not so much a seeker after truth as he is a mighty engine for the application of scientific truths, through unexpected and marvellous channels [....] One might call him the Democrat of Science'. His workshop at West Orange, New Jersey contains 'one of the most costly and well-equipped scientific libraries in the world', which allows this 'self-taught and self-made scientist' to avoid being 'only a gigantic specialist', while his 'topsy-turvy laboratory' is staffed by 'assistants and skilful workmen who follow his behest with something nearly akin to reverence'. (604) Among the challenges of the future is the 'direct production of electricity from oxygen and coal (carbon)' which Edison has 'worked on [...] and confidently predicts that the discovery will come' (606). This will revolutionise not only several different modes of transport (including air travel), but will also allow 'seeing and hearing by electricity' as well as the possibility of 'thought-transference by the same means' (607).
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 612.
Can White Men People Africa? Dr. Carl Peters' View Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 613.
Matabele Manners Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 616.
A Basis of Fact in Superstition. Mr. Andrew Lang on Psychic Phenomena Anon
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Against the Despotism of Doctors Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 621.
Was Shakespeare an "Automatic Writer"? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 621.
Clipping the Laurels of Columbus Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
John Murray
Murray, Sir John
(1841–1914)
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Scottish Geographical Magazine
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Christopher Columbus,
Columbus, Christopher
(1451–1506)
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Eratosthenes,
Eratosthenes
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Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan, Ferdinand
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 624.
Red Snow Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 627.
The Annihilation of the Drunkard. A Swedish Doctor on the Keeley Cure Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 629.
How to Rear Young Galahads Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 630.
Is Crime Hereditary? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 632.
Freedom of Thought in the Roman Church. The "Six Days" of Genesis Variously Rendered Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 634.
Is Euclid Dethroned? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 638.
How Oxygen is Liquefied Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 639.
Anthropometry and Social Reform Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 644.
Can Spirits be Photographed? Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 645.
Evolution and the Christian Creed Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 646.
The Fortnightly Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 648.
The Contemporary Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 657–61.
The Battersea Polytechnic Institute. A People's University for South-West London Anon Genre: | Essay, Miscellaneous | Relevant illustrations: | photo. [3], eng. [3] | Subjects: | Education, Universities, Class, Laboratories, Technology, Engineers |
Reports that the Battersea Polytechnic Institute
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Wells, Sidney Herbert
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Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 674–75.
The International Bureau of Photography. Its Origin, Officers, and Aims Anon
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