Science in the 19th Century Periodical

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Volume 9 (January to June 1894)

Issue [1] (January 1894)

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Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 4–12.

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The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Engineering, Progress, Scientific Practitioners, Scientific Naturalism, Evolution, Ethics, Morality
Applauds the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal Manchester Ship Canal Close View the register entry >> as 'a monument of engineering ability' and 'an impressive token of man's growing mastery over the world in which he lives'. The 'strip of water which brings the ocean to the doors of the great inland city is an inscription twelve leagues long carved on the surface of the globe, recording the indomitable power of will which alone makes progress possible'. (4) Remarks that the death of John Tyndall Tyndall, John (1820–93) DSB Close View the register entry >> 'may be taken to represent something of the nature of an epoch in the thought of our time'. Having been 'the fighting apostle of the doctrine of evolution', Tyndall 'lived to see the doctrine generally victorious'. Indeed, in 'the very year in which he died, his friend and master, Mr. Herbert Spencer Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB Close View the register entry >>, brought to a completion, amid general congratulation, the system of Synthetic Philosophy Spencer, Herbert 1892–93. The Principles of Ethics, A System of Synthetic Philosophy 9–10, 2 vols, London: Williams and Norgate Close View the register entry >> which is one colossal endeavour to interpret the known universe in terms of evolution'. With the 'hour of their triumph', however, 'begins the disclosure of their limitations', particularly in providing an 'adequate guidance for the moral life', an inadequacy acknowledged openly by both Spencer and Thomas H Huxley Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB Close View the register entry >> in his recent Romanes Lecture at Oxford. Concludes that the 'utterances of the chief philosopher and of the chief popular expositor of the evolutionary school combine with the death of its brilliant rhetorical fighting man to make 1893 a memorable year in the history of Evolution'. (12)

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 21–26.

Character Sketch. Professor Tyndall. By Grant Allen

Grant Allen Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB
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Genre:	Regular Feature, Biography
Relevant illustrations:	photo; eng. [3]
Subjects:	Evolution, Scientific Naturalism, Lecturing, Darwinism, Physics, Biology, Philosophy, Specialization, Genius, Nationalism, Chemistry, Education, Schools, Socialism, Laboratories, Methodology, Imagination, Electromagnetism, Patronage, Popularization, Cultural Geography, Heat, Materialism, Language, Religion, Controversy, Sound, Bacteriology, Politics, Liberalism, Conservatism, Radicalism
Announces that with the death of John Tyndall Tyndall, John (1820–93) DSB Close View the register entry >> 'the world has lost one of the prime leaders in the great revolution of the nineteenth century'. The 'still militant movement' that led this revolution twenty years ago was commonly identified with 'the united names of "Spencer Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB Close View the register entry >>, Huxley Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB Close View the register entry >>, Tyndall"', and 'the succession of names in that once familiar trio was right and significant. The men were mentioned in the order of their relative importance'. Tyndall's subordinate role in this group was as 'the orator and the physicist. He had the gift of the gab. He could speak with tongues, where the other two could only think and write and permeate'. The 'name of Darwin Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–82) DSB Close View the register entry >>' is 'not included' in this 'trinity of evolutionary leaders' because, lacking the 'philosophic roundness and completeness' of the others, he was a 'biological specialist' who 'stuck to his spécialité with that infinite patience and that infinite capacity for taking pains about detail which constitute genius [....] He knew his métier'. (21) Points out that Tyndall 'retained to the last no small physical traces of his Hibernian ancestry' and 'was a thoroughgoing Celt in physique and temperament'; the English lineage of his Ulster family only making them become '"more Irish than the Irish",—ipsis Hibernis Hiberniores' (21–22). Describes Tyndall's early career teaching at the 'middle class college' of Queenswood Queenswood College, Stockbridge, Hampshire Close View the register entry >>, although noting that 'some flavour of socialism still clung about' the old Owenite institution and that the college was 'progressive' enough to allow Edward Frankland Frankland, Sir Edward (1825–99) DSB DNODNBB Close View the register entry >> to 'set up in it the first practical laboratory ever introduced into a school in England' (22–23). Records that Tyndall's 'German training [at the University of Marburg University of Marburg Close View the register entry >>] did marvels for him: that Teutonic schooling in method helped largely to counterbalance the natural weak points of the Celtic temperament', although he nevertheless 'retained to the last his Celtic vividness of insight'. Comments that when Tyndall returned to England in the early 1850s it 'was not so hard then as it is now for a rising man to attract attention', and soon 'London, that great heterogeneous London, accepted him frankly as the representative physicist', for while the 'orthodox physicists of the Universities and of the North' were geographically distant, 'Tyndall was there, on the spot, audible and visible. He was the Royal Institution Royal Institution of Great Britain Close View the register entry >>. He was also Physics'. (23) Insists that Tyndall was 'Liberal in fibre and progressive in most directions' and was only led into conservative positions, especially on the question of Irish home rule, by the 'misfortune' of being 'born an Irish Protestant' and the deleterious 'influence of Carlyle Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881) ODNB Close View the register entry >>, the evil fairy of the last half century'. Also suggests that 'it is noteworthy that all the men of that first generation who spread the evolutionary doctrine among us are now reactionary in politics', while the 'younger brood whom they trained have gone on to be Radicals, Fabians, Socialists'. (25) Although 'it must be admitted that Tyndall's language gave a greater handle for the foolish accusation' of materialism 'than that of his more philosophic colleagues' (24), he should nevertheless be remembered as one who 'was not a materialist', but who saw the 'universe' as being 'full of terrible, and often as yet inexplicable, factors' (26).

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 28.

The Late Professor Tyndall. Professor Huxley on His Old Comrade

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Thomas H Huxley Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >> , Peter C Mitchell Mitchell, Sir Peter Chalmers (1864–1945) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , New Review New Review (1889–97) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Scientific Practitioners, Scientific Naturalism, Controversy, Amateurism
Contrasts the affectionate obituary of John Tyndall Tyndall, John (1820–93) DSB Close View the register entry >> penned by the surviving member of 'the Great Twin Brethren of belligerent evolutionism' with 'a somewhat coldly-critical estimate' which suggests that Tyndall possessed only 'the instincts of the intelligent amateur' and 'left little impression upon science'.

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 31.

Our Aerial Watchtowers

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Cornhill Magazine Cornhill Magazine (1860–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Military Technology, Aeronautics, Engineers

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 36.

The Real Discoverer of the New World. Not Columbus, But Cousin

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	James W Gambier Gambier, James William (b. 1841) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Exploration, Navigation, Discovery, History of Science, Error
People mentioned:	Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Christopher (1451–1506) CBD Close View the register entry >> Jean Cousin Cousin, Jean (sea-captain, of Dieppe) (fl. 1488) Gambier 1894 Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 39.

University Extension in Germany

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Oliver J Thatcher Thatcher, Oliver Joseph (b. 1857?) WBI Close View the register entry >> , University Extension World University Extension World (1893–95) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Education, Universities, Observatories, Astronomy, Popularization
Institutions mentioned:	Urania Gesellschaft, Berlin Urania Gesellschaft, Berlin Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 40.

Colour-Teaching in Schools

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Edward W Scripture Scripture, Edward Wheeler (b. 1864) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Educational Review Education (1890–91) Educational Review (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Education, Schools, Experimental Psychology

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 45.

How Chloroform was Discovered. The Discoverer's Daughter's Story

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Evelyn B Simpson Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre (1856–1920) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Century Magazine Century (1871–77) Scribner's Monthly (1877–81) Century Magazine (1881–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Discovery, Surgery, Anaesthesia, Mesmerism, Narcotics, Chemistry
People mentioned:	James Y Simpson Simpson, Sir James Young (1811–70) ODNB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 47.

Curious Facts About Child-Growth

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	G Stanley Hall Hall, Granville Stanley (1844-1924) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Human Development, Education, Schools

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 47.

"Pin-Wells and Rag-Bushes". Curious Survival of Primitive Worship

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Edwin S Hartland Hartland, Edwin Sidney (1848–1927) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Folk-Lore Folk-Lore Record (1878–82) Folk-Lore Journal (1883–89) Folk-Lore (1890–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Anthropology, Ethnography, Religion

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 53.

Old and New Epidemics

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Adrien A Proust Proust, Adrien Achille (1834–1903) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Hygiene

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 53.

The Main Points in an Athlete

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Benjamin W Richardson Richardson, Benjamin Ward (1828–96) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Longman's Magazine Longman's Magazine (1882–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Physiology, Health

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 54.

Hidden Powers of Hypnotism

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Stinson Jarvis Jarvis, Stinson (1854–1926) RLIN Close View the register entry >> , James R Cocke Cocke, James Richard (b. 1863) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Mesmerism, Medical Treatment

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 56.

Shall We Vivisect the Murderer?

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	John S Pyle Pyle, John Sherman (b. 1865) WBI Close View the register entry >> , American Journal of Politics American Journal of Politics (1892–94) RLIN Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Crime, Vivisection, Neurology, Experiment

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 59.

How Man Came To Be, and When and Where. "Evolution with a Jump"

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Daniel G Brinton Brinton, Daniel Garrison (1839–99) CBD Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >> , Friedrich K C L Büchner Büchner, Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig (1824–99) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Anthropology, Human Species, Palaeontology, Geology, Evolution, Heredity, Genius
Publications cited:	Hovelacque 1881 Hovelacque, Abel 1881. Les débuts de l'humanité: l'Homme primitif contemporain, Bibliothèque materialiste [2], Paris: O. Doin Close View the register entry >>
Questions whether the production of occasional men of genius such as Johann W von Goethe Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832) DSB Close View the register entry >> can be explained by the laws of heredity alone, or whether it requires 'what is called "evolution per saltum", or with a jump [...] that process, whatever it may be, which produces "sports" in plants'.

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 59.

What Dreams are Made of

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Louis Robinson Robinson, Louis (b. 1857) WBI Close View the register entry >> , North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Neurology, Psychology

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 63.

Are Atoms Alive?

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Joseph A Dewe Dewe, Joseph Adalbert (b. 1866) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Merry England Merry England (1893–95) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Electromagnetism, Matter Theory

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 63.

Dry Bread as Disinfectant

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Thomas M Legge Legge, Sir Thomas Morison (1863–1932) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Medical Magazine Medical Magazine (1892–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Hospitals, Sanitation

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 64.

Diptheria

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Elsevier's Geïllustreered Maandschrift Elsevier's Geillustreered Maandschrift (1890–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Medical Treatment, Bacteriology
People mentioned:	Friedrich A J Löffler Loeffler (Löffler), Friedrich August Johannes (1852–1915) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 67–68.

The Fortnightly

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	John W Judd Judd, John Wesley (1840–1916) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , George Thin Thin, George (d. 1903) WIVP Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Chemistry, Oceanography \| Disease, Bacteriology

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 71.

The North American Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	William T Sampson Sampson, William Thomas (1840–1902) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Henry G Prout Prout, Henry Goslee (b. 1845) WBI Close View the register entry >> , North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Steamships, Military Technology, Futurism \| Railways, Accidents

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 75.

Wilson's Photographic Magazine. Autobiographical

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Wilson's Photographic Magazine Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1889–1900+) RLIN Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Photography, Periodicals

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 76.

The Nouvelle Revue

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Emile Blanchard Blanchard, Emile (fl. 1855) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Nouvelle Revue Nouvelle Revue (1879–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Animal Behaviour, Instinct, Psychology

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 91–97.

The New Books of the Month

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Lugard 1893 Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry 1893. The Rise of Our East African Empire: Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda, 2 vols, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Exploration, Imperialism, Physical Geography, Mapping
People mentioned:	Ernst G Ravenstein Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (1834–1913) ODNB Close View the register entry >>

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Issue [2] (February 1894)

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Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 113–23.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Darwinism, Evolution, Politics, Radicalism, Industrial Chemistry, Military Technology, War
Reports that the trial of the anarchist Auguste Vaillant Vaillant, Auguste (1861–94) WBI Close View the register entry >>, who had thrown a bomb into the French Chamber of Deputies and was given the death-sentence, 'was chiefly notable because of his posing as the logical executant of the ideas of "the Reclus Reclus, Élisée (1830–1905) DSB Close View the register entry >>, the Darwins Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–82) DSB Close View the register entry >>, the Spencers Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB Close View the register entry >>, the Ibsens Ibsen, Henrik (1828–1906) CBD Close View the register entry >>, the Mirabeaus Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de (1749–91) CBD Close View the register entry >>". Whencesoever the ideas are borrowed, the execution goes on' (118). Also warns of the prospects of a coming 'scientific massacre' in Europe, where a 'new explosive, Schnebelite, named after its pious discoverer, Abbé Schnebelin Schnebelin, A (fl. 1894) RLIN Close View the register entry >>, was tested near Paris, and found to possess enormous shattering and penetrative power', and 'an Austrian inventor Augeza, Capt Baron A Odkolek von (of Vienna) (fl. 1894) http://www.eldred.demon.co.uk/reme-museum/index.htm Close View the register entry >> perfected an automatic mitrailleuse, said to spit forth death at the rate of 480 bullets a minute—eight per second'. These new 'explosives and weapons suggest' that 'civilised Europe' is 'rehearsing for [a] carnival of wholesale destruction'. (119)

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 148–49.

Is Europe Going Mad? A Pathological Study of Modern Literature

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Quarterly Review Quarterly Review (1809–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Imagination, Pathology, Degeneration
People mentioned:	Max S Nordau Nordau, Max Simon (originally Südfeld) (1849–1923) CBD Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 149.

The Training of Our Naval Officers. A Terrible Indictment

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	New Review New Review (1889–97) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Steamships, Military Technology, Education

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 150.

Mr. Herbert Spencer's Memorial Tribute. To the Late Professor Tyndall

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Herbert Spencer Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Scientific Practitioners, Scientific Naturalism
People mentioned:	John Tyndall Tyndall, John (1820–93) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 150.

The Coddling of Criminals

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	William S Lilly Lilly, William Samuel (1840–1919) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Crime, Anthropology, Morality, Conservatism
Reprobates the 'new science of Criminal Anthropology', as practised at 'the famous Elmira Reformatory Elmira Reformatory, New York State Close View the register entry >> in the State of New York', for being 'based on the negation of moral freedom and responsibility' (150).

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 156.

How Voice Reveals Character. A Blind Doctor's Observations

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	James R Cocke Cocke, James Richard (b. 1863) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Sound, Soul, Race

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 159.

What Killed Hindu Science

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Calcutta Review Calcutta Review (1844–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Induction, Superstition, Medical Treatment, Declinism
Institutions mentioned:	Medical College of Bengal, Calcutta Medical College of Bengal, Calcutta Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 160.

Geography in 1893

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Revue Française de l'Etranger et des Colonies Revue Française de l'Etranger et des Colonies (1885–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Physical Geography, Periodicals

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 169.

Dr. Karl Pearson on Monte Carlo Play. Is it a Game of Chance? Demonstrably No!

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Karl Pearson Pearson, Karl (1857–1936) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Mathematics, Statistics

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 169.

The Making of Scotch Doctors

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Scottish Review Scottish Review (1882–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Medical Practitioners, Education

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 170.

Facts About Abnormal Children

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Douglas S Galton Galton, Sir Douglas Strutt (1822–99) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Human Development, Disability, Mental Illness
People mentioned:	Francis Warner Warner, Francis (1847–1926) WBI Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 175.

The Psychology of Crime

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Ivar Flem Flem, Ivar (fl. 1894) RR1/9/2a/12 Close View the register entry >> , Nyt Tidskrift Nyt Tidskrift (cited 1894) RR1/9/2a/12, RR1/9/3a/3 Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Crime, Psychology, Heredity, Mesmerism
Rejects the notion of Cesare Lombroso Lombroso, Cesare (1836–1909) CBD Close View the register entry >> that 'criminals are a separate race of humans who, by reason of backsliding or atavism [...] are born to take life', and suggests instead that 'crime is simply the result of self-hypnotism, [...] the man has become hypnotised by the evil suggestion that on a sudden flashed into his brain', he is 'a moral cataleptic, and was forced to obey the suggestion'.

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 175.

Omnipresent Omniscience. The Secret of Evolution, Instinct, Mesmerism

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Stinson Jarvis Jarvis, Stinson (1854–1926) RLIN Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Animal Behaviour, Instinct, Mesmerism

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 176.

The Fortnightly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Henry O Forbes Forbes, Henry Ogg (1851–1932) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Biogeography, Geology

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 180.

The Quarterly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Quarterly Review Quarterly Review (1809–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Glaciology
Publications cited:	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 Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 201.

Photographing Colours

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:	Photography, Light
People mentioned:	Hermann von Helmholtz, Helmholtz, Hermann von (1821–94) DSB Close View the register entry >> Gabriel J Lippmann Lippmann, Gabriel Jonas (1845–1921) DSB Close View the register entry >>

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Issue [3] (March 1894)

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Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 219–29.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Politics, Radicalism, Crime, Observatories
Reports a 'tragic event in Greenwich Park' where a 'French Anarchist, Martial Bourdin Bourdin, Martial (1867/8–94) ODNB Close View the register entry >> by name, was [...] blown to pieces by a bomb which he was carrying suspiciously near to the great Observatory Royal Observatory, Greenwich Close View the register entry >>', and speculates that the 'destruction of so renowned a scientific centre, if it was really intended, can only have been designed as a sensational advertisement of Anarchism' (222).

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 259.

Cures Wrought by "Metaphysicians"

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Benjamin O Flower Flower, Benjamin Orange (1858–1918) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Medical Practitioners, Mesmerism, Heterodoxy, Nomenclature

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 260.

When the End of the World is Nigh. A Swedish Bogey-Story

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Sigurd Ibsen Ibsen, Sigurd (b. 1859) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Nyt Tidskrift Nyt Tidskrift (cited 1894) RR1/9/2a/12, RR1/9/3a/3 Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Science Fiction, Futurism, Astrology, Astronomy, Imagination, Fear
People mentioned:	Camille Flammarion Flammarion, Camille (1842–1925) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 261–62.

How It Exploded War for Ever: A Tale of the Dynamite Gun

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	James Creelman Creelman, James (1859–1915) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Cosmopolitan Magazine Cosmopolitan Magazine (1886–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Science Fiction, War, Military Technology, Steamships, Futurism, Imagination

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 262.

Electric Carriages

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Cassier's Magazine Cassier's Magazine (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Electricity, Transport, Futurism

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 264.

Marvels Science Has in Store

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Henry Elsdale Elsdale, Henry (b. 1843) WIVP Close View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Futurism, Prognostication, Aeronautics, Steamships, Engineering, Chemistry, Nutrition
People mentioned:	Charles H Pearson Pearson, Charles Henry (1830–94) ODNB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 265.

"Can Be Wiped Out in One Generation". Consumption Contagious, Curable, Non-Hereditary

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Hermann M Biggs Biggs, Hermann Michael (1859–1923) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Disease, Bacteriology, Heredity, Medical Treatment
People mentioned:	H H Robert Koch Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843–1910) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 270.

Science at the Free Libraries

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	John T Carrington Carrington, John Thomas (b. 1846) RLIN Close View the register entry >> , Science Gossip Hardwicke's Science Gossip: A Monthly Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature (1865–93) Science Gossip: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Nature and Country-Lore (1893–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Libraries, Reading, Illustration, Education

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 271.

Natural Science in Japan. By F. A. Bather

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Francis A Bather Bather, Francis Arthur (1863–1934) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Natural Science Natural Science (1892–99) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	History of Science

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 271.

[New Series of Science-Gossip]

Anon

Genre:	Announcement, Literary Notice
Subjects:	Periodicals
People mentioned:	John T Carrington, Carrington, John Thomas (b. 1846) RLIN Close View the register entry >> Edward Step Step, Edward (1855–1931) WBI Close View the register entry >>
Publications cited:	Science Gossip Hardwicke's Science Gossip: A Monthly Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature (1865–93) Science Gossip: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Nature and Country-Lore (1893–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 274.

Why Women Ought Not to Work

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Guglielmo Ferrero Ferrero, Guglielmo (1871–1942) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Monist Monist (1890–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Biology, Sociology, Natural Law, Gender

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 277.

What Ought to Have Been Done with Vaillant

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	George V Poore Poore, George Vivian (1843–1904) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Medical Magazine Medical Magazine (1892–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Crime, Pathology
People mentioned:	Auguste Vaillant Vaillant, Auguste (1861–94) WBI Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 277.

[A Dutch Scientific Expedition to Central Borneo]

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Ambrosius A W Hubrecht Hubrecht, Ambrosius Arnold Willem (1853–1915) DSB Close View the register entry >> , De Gids De Gids (1871–1900+) COPAC Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Exploration

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 280.

"Paidology"—The Science of the Child

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Oscar Chrisman Chrisman, Oscar (1855–1929) RLIN Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Human Development, Education, Disciplinarity, Nomenclature
People mentioned:	G Stanley Hall Hall, Granville Stanley (1844-1924) WBI Close View the register entry >>
Institutions mentioned:	National Association for the Study of Children National Association for the Study of Children Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 283.

How to Kill the Fog Demon

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Eric H S Bruce Bruce, Eric Henry Stuart (1859–1935) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Dublin Review Dublin Review (1836–60) Wiseman Review (1861–85) Dublin Review (1885–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Pollution, Light, Sanitation, Electricity
People mentioned:	Thomas P Teale Teale, Thomas Pridgin (1831–1923) ODNB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 284.

How Man Learns to Fly

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Louis P Mouillard Mouillard, Louis Pierre (1834–97) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Cosmopolitan Magazine Cosmopolitan Magazine (1886–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >> , Leisure Hour Leisure Hour (1852–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	eng. [2]
Subjects:	Aeronautics, Invention

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 286.

Where Mr. Herbert Spencer has Failed

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Lester F Ward Ward, Lester Frank (1841–1913) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1890–1900+) RLIN Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Evolution, Ethics, Philosophy, Error
People mentioned:	Herbert Spencer Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 287.

The North-East Sea Route to Siberia

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Joseph Wiggins Wiggins, Joseph (1832–1905) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Geographical Journal Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1855–92) Geographical Journal, including Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1893–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	map
Subjects:	Exploration, Navigation, Steamships

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 287–88.

Will She Refuse the Unfit?

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Samuel A K Strahan Strahan, Samuel Alexander Kenny (d. 1902) COPAC Close View the register entry >> , Humanitarian Humanitarian (1892–99) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Gender, Sex, Breeding, Darwinism, Eugenics
Suggests that Strahan 'point blank contradicts Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913) DSB Close View the register entry >>' over the question 'concerning women when free to choose her life-mate' (287).

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 291–92.

Rational Dress for Women

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Emily A Bruce Bruce, Miss Emily A (MD) (fl. 1894) RR1/9/3a/20 Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	wdct. [4]
Subjects:	Gender, Disease, Physiology, Rationalism
In a 'symposium on the rational dress movement', Emily A Bruce, 'Speaking from her experience as a physician', declares 'that "more women die annually in our country from the effects of faulty dressing than from all the contagious diseases combined', and suggests the adoption of a 'modified Syrian dress' which affords 'ample room everywhere for absolute freedom of motion and for the ever-recurring physiological congestions of the digestive tract' (291).

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 292.

Mr. Parker Snow's Literary Material

Anon / W Parker Snow, 1, Victoria Road, Bexley Heath, Kent Snow, William Parker (1817–95) ODNB
Close View the register entry >>

Genre:	Editorial; Letter
Subjects:	Exploration, Mapping, Heterodoxy
See also:	Anon, 'Character Sketch: April. Mr. W. Parker Snow—Sailor, Explorer, and Author', Review of Reviews, 7 (1893), 371–86

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 293–94.

The Fortnightly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Robert S Ball Ball, Sir Robert Stawell (1840–1913) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Astronomy, Spectroscopy, Light
People mentioned:	George J Stoney Stoney, George Johnstone (1826–1911) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 297.

The Arena

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Stinson Jarvis Jarvis, Stinson (1854–1926) RLIN Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Darwinism, Evolution, Error
People mentioned:	Charles R Darwin Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–82) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 308–13.

Other Books of the Month

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Kidd 1894 Kidd, Benjamin 1894. Social Evolution, London: Macmillan & Co. Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Evolution, Sociology, Progress

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Issue [4] (April 1894)

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Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 329–40.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Subjects:	Industry, Experiment, Political Economy, National Efficiency
After reporting the formation of a new ministry following the resignation of William E Gladstone Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–98) ODNB Close View the register entry >> and the end of the civil war in Brazil, suggests that 'so far as the mass of men are concerned it is probable that a simple experiment carried on in a Lancashire ironworks [will] exceed all these imposing political and military events in intrinsic importance. Mr. William Mather Mather, Sir William (1838–1920) ODNB Close View the register entry >>, well-known as a public-spirited ironmaster, last month published a report Mather, William 1894. The Forty-Eight Hours Week: A Year's Experiment and its Results at the Salford Iron Works, Manchester (Mather & Platt, Ltd.), Manchester: "Guardian" Printing Works Close View the register entry >> on an experiment as to the effect of the eight hours' system on the output of a great industrial establishment', and the 'scientific economic experiment' at the 'Salford Iron Works' has shown that the reduction of hours 'practically left the amount of work done unaltered' (333).

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 365.

Ambitions of Physical Science

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	George F Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, George Francis (1851–1901) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Science Progress Science Progress (1894–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Progress, Ether, Matter Theory

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 366.

New Weapons of War

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Joseph L Brent Brent, Joseph Lancaster (1826–1905) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Atlantic Monthly Magazine Atlantic Monthly Magazine (1857–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Military Technology, Electricity, Futurism

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 368.

The Proposed Pacific Cables

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Herbert L Webb Webb, Herbert Laws (fl. 1890–1911) RLIN Close View the register entry >> , Engineering Magazine Engineering Magazine (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	map
Subjects:	Telegraphy, Imperialism

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 375.

A Plea for "Social Surgery". The Darwinian Gospel for the Unfit

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Francis H Bradley Bradley, Francis Herbert (1846–1924) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , International Journal of Ethics International Journal of Ethics (1890–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Darwinism, Ethics, Eugenics

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 381.

Tycho Brahe, the Astronomer

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Robert S Ball Ball, Sir Robert Stawell (1840–1913) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Good Words Good Words (1860–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Astronomy, History of Science
People mentioned:	Tycho Brahe Brahe, Tycho (1546–1601) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 382.

Growth and Influence of the Telephone

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Thomas D Lockwood Lockwood, Thomas Dixon (b. 1848) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Cassier's Magazine Cassier's Magazine (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Telegraphy, Electricity, Progress

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 392.

Some Natural History Papers

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	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 >> , Richard L Garner Garner, Richard Lynch (b. 1848) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Pall Mall Magazine Pall Mall Magazine (1893–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >> , Herbert E Maxwell Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith (1845–1937) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Good Words Good Words (1860–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >> , Gustav Kobbé Kobbé, Gustav (1857–1918) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Scribner's Magazine Scribner's Magazine (1887–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Natural History, Zoology

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 396.

Is Man Losing One of His Senses?

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Edward Dillon Dillon, Edward (c. 1850–1914) WIVP Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Neurology

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 396.

How Character Forms the Face

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Louis Robinson Robinson, Louis (b. 1857) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Edinburgh Monthly Magazine (1817) Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Physiognomy, Instinct

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 399.

The Tramcar of the Future

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Frederick T Jane Jane, Frederick Thomas (1865–1916) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , English Illustrated Magazine English Illustrated Magazine (1883–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	eng.
Subjects:	Transport, Futurism

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 405.

The Forum

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Henry D Chapin Chapin, Henry Dwight (1857–1942) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Human Development, Health, Heredity

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 405–06.

The Arena

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Sydney B Elliot Elliot, Sydney Barrington (b. 1869) RLIN Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Embryology, Human Development

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 408.

The Revue Des Deux Mondes

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Charles Féré Féré, Charles (1852–1907) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Scientific Practitioners, Neurology, Lecturing
People mentioned:	Jean M Charcot Charcot, Jean-Martin (1825–93) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 410–17.

My First Visit to America. An Open Letter to My Readers

[William T Stead] S.S. New York, Atlantic Ocean Stead, William Thomas (1849–1912) ODNB
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Genre:	Letter, Travelogue
Subjects:	Steamships, Machinery
Relates that the question whether it is 'possible to increase the speed at which the Atlantic is crossed without destroying the comfort of the passengers' is one 'on which my fellow travellers had some very decided opinions. They reported that the Lucania SS Lucania Close View the register entry >> and Campania SS Campania Close View the register entry >>, which are driven by engines of fully double the horse-power of our vessel the Columbia SS Columbia Close View the register entry >>, produced such a vibration that nervous persons suffered more from nervous prostration than they did from sea-sickness [....] I confess I am very dubious as to the advantages of increasing the horse-power on board an Atlantic liner until science has discovered some means of decreasing the vibration of the engines' (411–12).

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Issue [5] (May 1894)

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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 471.

Some Electrical Papers

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Thomas D Lockwood Lockwood, Thomas Dixon (b. 1848) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Engineering Magazine Engineering Magazine (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Electricity, Light, Transport

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 472.

The War Office and the Maxim Gun

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Investors' Review Investors' Review (1892–98) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Military Technology, Invention, Government
Complains that 'the Maxim Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens (1840–1916) ODNB Close View the register entry >> gun [...] has been foisted on the army without competitive trial with other machine guns', and insists that the now rejected 'Gardner Gardner, William (1844/5–87) ODNB Close View the register entry >> gun [is] an infinitely superior and more reliable weapon'.

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 473.

The Kinetograph

Anon

Genre:	Abstract, Announcement
Publications abstracted:	Phonogram Phonogram (1893) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	photo.
Subjects:	Photography, Sound

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 474.

Mr. Kidd's Discovery. The Duke of Argyll on "Social Evolution"

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	[George D Campbell] Campbell, George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Edinburgh Review Edinburgh Review (1802–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Sociology, Evolution, Progress
Publications cited:	Kidd 1894 Kidd, Benjamin 1894. Social Evolution, London: Macmillan & Co. Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 485.

How to Teach Social Science

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Charities Review Charities Review (1891–1900+) COPAC Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Sociology, Education, Universities
Institutions mentioned:	Columbia College, New York Columbia College, New York Close View the register entry >>

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 494–95.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Benjamin Baker Baker, Sir Benjamin (1840–1907) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , John P Mahaffy Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland (1839–1919) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Engineering, Archaeology, Imperialism

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 498.

The Edinburgh Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Edinburgh Review Edinburgh Review (1802–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Gas Chemistry
People mentioned:	James Dewar Dewar, Sir James (1842–1923) DSB ODNB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 499.

The Quarterly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Quarterly Review Quarterly Review (1809–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Oceanography

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 500.

The North American Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Louis Robinson Robinson, Louis (b. 1857) WBI Close View the register entry >> , North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Evolution, Animal Behaviour

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 522–26.

Our Monthly Parcel of Books

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Kidd 1894 Kidd, Benjamin 1894. Social Evolution, London: Macmillan & Co. Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	photo.
Subjects:	Authorship, Sociology, Evolution, Reading, Periodicals
Reflects that 'Mr. Benjamin Kidd Kidd, Benjamin (1858–1916) ODNB Close View the register entry >>, the almost unknown author of the universally-talked-of book on Social Evolution [....] is not so unknown' to readers of the Review of Reviews Review of Reviews (1890–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>, 'for you will remember an interesting Benjamin Kidd, 'Our Scientific Causerie. Darwin's Successor at Home', Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 647–50 which he contributed about three years ago to the pages of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS on Weismann Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold (1834–1914) DSB Close View the register entry >> and Weismannism'. Kidd's first book, which he 'began [...] in 1888, and has worked at [...] steadily for six years', has now 'take[n] the reading world by storm', and has been described by its author as 'the scientific basis for the social gospel of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS'. Also prints a portrait of Kidd, which, readers are told, 'he—most reluctant—was good enough to have photographed especially for you'. (523)

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Issue [6] (June 1894)

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Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 552–59.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary
Relevant illustrations:	eng. [2]
Subjects:	Invention, Discovery, Military Technology, War, Engineering, Publishing, Technology, Patronage
Speculates as to whether it is 'possible that the invention of the German journeyman tailor Dowe Dowe, —— (German journeyman tailor) (fl. 1894) RR1/9/6/1 Close View the register entry >> of an impenetrable breastplate, made apparently of cloth and asbestos, may [...] tend to postpone the much-dreaded war'. Dowe has 'discovered how to manufacture a material which stops rifle-bullets', and if the 'military authorities decide that their soldiers must be cloth-plated, there will be no war until the men have got their new suits'. Even then 'somebody else may discover something else, and the war may again be put off. M. Turpin Turpin, Eugène (1849–1927) WBI Close View the register entry >>, for instance, is announcing the invention of a new engine of destruction which the Germans have snapped up. The invention and science of chemists and journeyman tailors may in the long run be more efficacious in postponing war than the exhortations of the churches or the efforts of the diplomatists'. (555) Records the official opening of the Manchester Ship Canal Manchester Ship Canal Close View the register entry >>, and reports that the 'success of the Manchester Canal is now giving birth to other schemes of like nature. The talk now is of a canal to cost £6,000,000, which will enable Transatlantic liners to load and discharge in the heart of the West Riding. That is mere talk, at least as yet' (557–58). Also applauds the award of a knighthood to Isaac Pitman Pitman, Sir Isaac (1813–97) ODNB Close View the register entry >>, who is 'best known to the world as the inventor of the system of stenography by the aid of which almost every important speech now finds its way into print' (558).

Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 588–89.

Mr. Kidd and Social Evolution. By Lord Farrer, Professor Drummond, and Others

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Drummond 1894, Drummond, Henry 1894. The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man, London: Hodder and Stoughton Close View the register entry >> , Thomas H Farrer Farrer, Sir Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Farrer (1819–99) ODNB Close View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Sociology, Evolution, Progress
Publications cited:	Kidd 1894 Kidd, Benjamin 1894. Social Evolution, London: Macmillan & Co. Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 593.

Camille Flammarion. How an Astronomer Spends His Day

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Robert H Sherard Sherard, Robert Harborough (b. 1861) WBI Close View the register entry >> , McClure's Magazine McClure's Magazine (1893–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Scientific Practitioners, Astronomy, Aeronautics, Libraries, Heterodoxy, Spiritualism
People mentioned:	Camille Flammarion, Flammarion, Camille (1842–1925) DSB Close View the register entry >> Hippolyte L D Rivail, Rivail, Hippolyte Léon Denizard (pseud Allan-Kardec) (1803–69) WBI Close View the register entry >> Gérard Encausse Encausse, Gérard (pseud Papus) (b. 1865) WBI Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 605.

The River Gate of London

Anon

Genre:	Abstract
Publications abstracted:	William J Gordon Gordon, William James (fl. 1899–1903) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Leisure Hour Leisure Hour (1852–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	wdct.
Subjects:	Engineering

Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 608.

The Fortnightly Review

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Alfred Binet Binet, Alfred (1857–1911) DSB Close View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Experimental Psychology

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 609.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Wentworth Lascelles-Scott Lascelles-Scott, Wentworth (fl. 1894) WIVP Close View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Industrial Chemistry, Military Technology, Music, Heterodoxy
People mentioned:	John E W Keely Keely, John Ernst Worrell (1827–98) WBI Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 611.

The Arena

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	James R Cocke Cocke, James Richard (b. 1863) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Psychical Research, Medical Treatment

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 617.

The Revue Des Deux Mondes

Anon

Genre:	Review, Abstract
Publications reviewed:	Pierre Duhem Duhem, Pierre (b. 1861) WBI Close View the register entry >> , Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Physics
People mentioned:	William Thomson Thomson, Sir William (Baron Kelvin of Largs) (1824–1907) DSB Close View the register entry >>

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 629–31.

The Book of the Month. The Love Story of the World. By Professor Henry Drummond

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Drummond 1894 Drummond, Henry 1894. The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man, London: Hodder and Stoughton Close View the register entry >>
Subjects:	Human Species, Evolution, Sex, Darwinism, Feeling

Review of Reviews, 9 (1894), 632–35.

Our Monthly Parcel of Books

Anon

Genre:	Regular Feature, Abstract
Publications abstracted:	Hutchinson 1894 Hutchinson, Henry Neville 1894. Creatures of Other Days, London: Chapman & Hall Close View the register entry >>
Relevant illustrations:	eng.
Subjects:	Palaeontology, Prehistory, Natural History, Imagination

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