Science in the 19th Century Periodical

The Review of Reviews [1st]

Introductory Essay
Volume 15  (January to June 1897)
Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 2–7.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary

Subjects:

Industrial Chemistry, Patronage, Discovery


    Notes that the late 'Alfred Nobel Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (1833–96) DSB
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, the Swede, whose name is familiar wherever dynamite is used as the Thor Hammer of Modern Industry' has bequeathed some £2,000,000 'for the purpose of encouraging scientific study, medical discovery, and the promotion of international peace'. The interest annually accruing from this sum (around £60,000) will be split into 'five portions, to be awarded in prizes for the most important discoveries' in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, as well as for the promotion of peace, and will, in Nobel's opinion, be 'the very best mode of stimulating the intellect and energy of mankind in regions where the ordinary incentives fail'. (2)



Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 15–30.

Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. I.—From Republicanism to Monarchy  [1/6]Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. IV.—The Queen as Head of the Church', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 321–35
Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. VI.—After Sixty Years', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 533–45

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Anon

Genre:

Biography, Serial

Subjects:

Photography, Analogy, Politics


    In arguing for the superiority of constitutional monarchy over republicanism, claims that 'when we have to do with many millions, scattered over many continents, it is impossible to make any impression on the general mind by the fleeting phantoms of evanescent Ministries. To borrow an illustration from photography, their exposure is not long enough. The plate is not sensitive enough for rapid photography. But the immobility, the massive grandeur, and the fierce light that beats around the Throne, all facilitate the production of a clear, well-defined image on the mind of our kin beyond the sea' (30).



Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 32.

Trade in Corpses; or, Body-snatching in America

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Thomas Dwight Dwight, Thomas (1843–1911) WBI
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, Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Dissection, Anatomy, Medical Practitioners


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 36.

The Bicycle in a Knapsack. The Decisive Factor in Future Wars

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

John W M Macartney Macartney, John William Merton (1850–1925) WBI
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, United Service Magazine United Service Magazine (1889–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Transport, Machinery, War


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 41–42.

The British Soldier in India. Modern Knight or Lawless Brute?

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

W Hill-Climo Hill-Climo, Brigade Surgeon Lieut-Col W (fl. 1897) RR1/15/1a/5
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, United Service Magazine United Service Magazine (1889–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Disease, Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Imperialism


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 47.

Modern Nurses and Their Defects: By Lady Priestley

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Eliza L G St J Priestley Priestley (née Chambers), Lady Eliza L G St J (1836–1909) WIVP
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, Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Education, Gender


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 48.

Incubators for Babies

Anon

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Publications abstracted:

James W Smith Smith, James Walter (1868–1931) WBI
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, Strand Magazine Strand Magazine (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Obstetrics, Medical Treatment, Invention, Patents


    Reports that 'the latest device of modern scientific philanthropy, consists of something like a small hen-coop' in which a new-born baby is 'kept at uniform temperature by a spiral pipe through which a current of warm water is continually run'. This 'system of baby-hatching was invented by Dr. Alexander Lion Lion, Alexandre (fl. 1896) Smith 1896
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, of Nice' in 1891, and the patented device, which is used across France, has now begun to be used in London.



Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 60.

The Italian Reviews

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Cesare Lombroso Lombroso, Cesare (1836–1909) CBD
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, La Nuova Antologia Nuova Antologia, La (1866–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Neurology, Dissection, Crime, Pathology

People mentioned:

Domenico Tiburzi Tiburzi, Domenico (1836–96) RLIN
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 103–12.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary

Subjects:

Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Imperialism

Institutions mentioned:

Army Army
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    Observes that 'the military medico-police intend to make another attempt to establish prostitution as a branch of the Imperial service in India', and warns George F Hamilton Hamilton, Lord George Francis (1845–1927) ODNB
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, the Secretary of State for India, that the 'Record year of the Queen must not be defiled by any of this purulent matter' (112).



Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 149.

["A Journey Through the Malay States"]

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Hugh C Clifford Clifford, Sir Hugh Charles (1866–1941) ODNB
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, Geographical Journal Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1855–92) Geographical Journal, including Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1893–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Physical Geography, Botany, Exploration


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 150.

[Crime and the Census]

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Roland P Falkner Falkner, Roland Post (1866–1940) WBI
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, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1890–1900+) RLIN
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Subjects:

Crime, Statistics, Error, Imposture


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 151.

Darwin and Spencer. By Mr. Grant Allen

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Grant Allen Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB
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, Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Evolution, Darwinism, Philosophy, History of Science

Publications cited:

Clodd 1897 Clodd, Edward 1897. Pioneers of Evolution From Thales to Huxley: With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement, London: Grant Richards
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 157.

Cyclomania Morbus. By a Cyclo-mad Doctor

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Arthur Shadwell Shadwell, Arthur (1854–1936) WBI
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, National Review National Review (1883–1900+) Sullivan 1984
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Subjects:

Transport, Machinery, Mental Illness, Medical Practitioners, Specialization, Nomenclature, Neurology


    Claims that 'we are about to witness the evolution of a new class of specialists corresponding to the mad doctors who were so well known under the Lunacy Acts. For want of a better title we may call them cyclo-mad doctors, and just as we know a mad doctor is always ready to discover signs of incipient lunacy in the simplest departure from regular routine, so the cyclo-mad doctor is disposed to discover symptoms of the new disease—which again, for want of a better name, we may christen Cyclomania Morbus—in every headache of which a rider may complain'. Also recounts 'discussing the question of different kinds of amusements as brain rests with Mr. Grant Allen Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB
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', who proposed that 'cycling was only useful from that point of view so long as the cyclist had not perfect management of his machine' because 'to secure a brain worker brain rest the great desideratum is to set up in the mind an attitude of constant expectancy which prevents thoughts reverting to the old rut. Hence the advantage of salmon fishing as a rest for overworked brain students'. Points out, however, that Allen's position seems to entail that in order to 'set up such an attitude of expectancy, nothing can be easier than to try to cycle without your hands on the handle-bar and your eyes shut'.



Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 159–60.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Ethel G Fenwick Fenwick (née Manson), Ethel Gordon (1857–1947) ODNB
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, Montagu Lubbock Lubbock, Montagu (1842–1925) WBI
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, Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Education, Gender | Disease, Bacteriology

People mentioned:

Shibasaburo Kitasato Kitasato, Shibasaburo (1852–1931) DSB
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See also:

Anon, 'Modern Nurses and Their Defects: By Lady Priestley', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 47


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 167–68.

The Forum

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt, Theodore (1858–1919) CBD
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, Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Degeneration, Sociology, Energy, Natural Law

Publications cited:

Adams 1895 Adams, Brooks 1895. The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History, London: S. Sonnerschein & Co., Ltd.; New York: Macmillan & Co.
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 185–88.

Some Notable Books of the Month

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Kingsley 1897, Kingsley, Mary Henrietta 1897. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons, London: Macmillan & Co.
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Clodd 1897 Clodd, Edward 1897. Pioneers of Evolution From Thales to Huxley: With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement, London: Grant Richards
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Subjects:

Exploration, Travel, Gender, Physical Geography, Imperialism, Anthropology, Evolution, Darwinism, Philosophy, History of Science


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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 241.

How to Live Long

Anon

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Publications abstracted:

Emily Crawford Crawford (née Johnstone), Emily (1831?–1915) ODNB
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, Young Man Young Man (1887–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Ageing, Health, Nutrition, Hygiene


    Explains the diet and 'hygienic rules' followed by the nonagenarian Isaac Holden Holden, Sir Isaac, 1st Baronet (1807–97) ODNB
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and 'by the aid of which he hopes to be able to reach his 120th year'.



Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 246–47.

The Prophecies of Edison; or, the Vision of Things to Come

Anon

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Publications abstracted:

George P Lathrop Lathrop, George Parsons (1851–98) WBI
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, English Illustrated Magazine English Illustrated Magazine (1883–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Science Fiction, Futurism, Invention, Transport, Technology, Electricity

People mentioned:

Thomas A Edison Edison, Thomas Alva (1847–1931) DSB
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 248.

The Mysteries of the Waterfinder

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

John H Schooling Schooling, John Holt (1859–1927) WBI
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, Pearson's Magazine Pearson's Magazine (1896–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Heterodoxy, Psychical Research


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 250.

Is the Plague Coming?

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Ernest Mosny Mosny, Ernest (1861–1918) WBI
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, Revue de Paris Revue de Paris (1894–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Disease, Sanitation


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 254.

The Altruism of Animals. Are They Better Christians than Men?

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Paul Topinard Topinard, Paul (b. 1830) WBI
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, Monist Monist (1890–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Morality, Ethics, Christianity


Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 269.

Photographic Marvels

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Levin Carnac Carnac, Levin (fl. 1898) RLIN
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, Pearson's Magazine Pearson's Magazine (1896–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Photography, Wonder


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 273.

Some Illustrated Magazines

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

W K Marischal Marischal, W K (fl. 1897) RR1/15/3b/7
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, English Illustrated Magazine English Illustrated Magazine (1883–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Palaeontology, Discovery, Human Species, Descent

People mentioned:

Eugène Dubois Dubois, Eugène (1858–1940) RLIN
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 276–85.

The Book of the Month. Nansen's "Furthest North"

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Nansen 1897, Nansen, Fridtjof 1897. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893–96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, 2 vols, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co.
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Nansen 1890, Nansen, Fridtjof 1890. The First Crossing of Greenland, trans. from the Norwegian by Hubert Majendie Gepp, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Bain 1897 Bain, James Arthur 1897. Life of Fridtjof Nansen: Scientist and Explorer, Including an Account of the 1893–1896 Expedition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.
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Relevant illustrations:

photo. [2]; map [2]

Subjects:

Publishing, Reading, Exploration, Endeavour, Physical Geography, Oceanography, Heroism, Hypothesis, Steamships, Discovery

People mentioned:

Joseph Wiggins, Wiggins, Joseph (1832–1905) ODNB
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Otto N Sverdrup, Sverdrup, Otto Neumann (1854–1930) RLIN
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Hjalmar Johansen Johansen, Hjalmar (1867–1913) RLIN
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    Comments on the 'Nansen boom' of the last month, and notes that it is 'many years since any publisher has reaped as golden a harvest as Messrs. Constable Archibald Constable and Co., firm
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' have with Fridtjof Nansen's Nansen, Fridtjof (1861–1930) DSB
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latest book, for which, rumour has it, the publishers paid him £10,000 (276). Although Nansen's Arctic explorations have succeeded in establishing a fact 'possessing immense scientific importance [...] viz., the existence of a deep western current flowing from the north of Siberia to the East of Greenland', it is 'not one that appeals to the popular imagination'. Rather, what has stirred interest beyond that of the 'Arctic expert' in Nansen's account of his voyage is its 'record of the combat of Man with Nature in her sternest moods [...] the great unchained, untamed forces of savage nature' (277). Indeed, the brilliant cricketer 'Prince Ranjitsinhji Nawanagar, Maharaja Shri Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, maharaja jam saheb of (1872–1933) ODNB
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, probably, was the most popular man last year with the masses of the people, for the same reason that Nansen is popular this year [...] they both represent men who have pitted their strength and skill against great odds and have come off triumphant' (279). Recounts how Nansen determined to test a hypothesis developed in the 1880s that items from a ship wrecked in northern Siberia had 'drifted on a floe across the polar sea' and reached the south-west coast of Greenland, and, by building a steam-ship 'strong enough to be wedged into the ice that drifted westward', was able to demonstrate that in the current lay 'the route to the North Pole ready to hand' (282). As well as verifying the existence of 'a steady current that can be relied upon for transport purposes', Nansen's expedition has also 'finally exploded one of the favourite delusions of Arctic authorities' by proving that, rather than being 'shallow and extremely cold throughout', the Arctic Ocean in fact 'contains the respectable depth of two thousand odd fathoms, and [...] is much warmer than any one had any idea of' (285).



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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 305–16.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary

Subjects:

Photography, Technology, Statistics, Disease, Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Imperialism, Medical Practitioners, Gender


    Reports the eagerly anticipated 'prize fight for the Championship of the ring' which was fought in Nevada between Robert Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons, Robert (1863–1917) ODNB
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and James J Corbett Corbett, James John (1866–1933) WBI
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. The fight 'lasted nearly an hour, and as every phase of it was photographed for reproduction on the kinetoscope, we may expect to see the latest resources of photographic science employed in familiarising every man and boy in the English-speaking world with every detail of the fourteen rounds' (314). Also disputes the statistical claims made concerning the prevalence of syphilis in the British Army Army
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in India ('522 per 1,000'), and warns again that the 'advocates for licensing prostitution have been ill-advised in selecting this year for raising the question' (see Anon, 'The Progress of the World', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 103–12). Accepts, however, that no one can have 'any objection whatever to doing everything that can be properly done to lessen the ravages of any disease, no matter what its origin', and insists that 'no one would object [...] if the unfortunate female camp-followers of British regiments could be treated by female medical officers whenever they fall ill'. Providing 'facilities for healing the sick', though, is very different to 'creating an institution for recognising and virtually establishing the vice which is the direct cause of the disease in question'. (315)



Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 321–35.

Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. IV.—The Queen as Head of the Church  [4/6]Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. I.—From Republicanism to Monarchy', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 15–30
Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. VI.—After Sixty Years', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 533–45

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Anon

Genre:

Biography, Serial

Subjects:

Rationalism, Education, Societies, Patronage, Medical Practitioners, Gender, Heterodoxy, Spiritualism, Race, Railways, Accidents


    Asserts that 'the Prince-Consort Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha], prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria (1819–61) ODNB
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was a German rationalist, devout, no doubt, but with absolutely no room in his brain for the notions to which Anglican clerics attach supreme importance'. Indeed, the 'Prince-Consort, and therefore the Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India (1819–1901) ODNB
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, was prepared to welcome the rationalist reformation' of the early nineteenth century, and in private letters he 'praises also Combe's Combe, George (1788–1858) ODNB
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excellent pamphlet on education Combe, George 1835. Lectures on Popular Education: Delivered to the Edinburgh Philosophical Association in April and November 1833, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart
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, in which he defines the real mission of science and education'. (326) Notes that while the Queen gives her patronage to associations such as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
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which 'accord with the unanimous sentiment of all her subjects', she is 'by her position precluded' from 'commanding in person those adventurous associations of pioneers' with whom she might otherwise sympathise (332). On 'the cause of medical women', for instance, 'there can be little doubt as to the side on which the Queen must naturally stand, if only from her keen sympathy with the women of India' (331). Also insists that the widowed monarch 'not only believes but knows the truth of the doctrine of Spirit return', although no one would wish her to 'scandalise the prejudices of her subjects by becoming, let us say, a patron of the Spiritualist Alliance London Spiritualist Alliance
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' (331–32).



Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 347.

Why the Germans are Beating Us. The Testimony of Sir Philip Magnus

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Philip Magnus Magnus, Sir Philip, 1st Baronet (1842-1933) ODNB
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, National Review National Review (1883–1900+) Sullivan 1984
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Subjects:

National Efficiency, Government, Declinism, Industry, Technology, Education, Schools

Institutions mentioned:

Royal Commission on Technical Instruction Royal Commission on Technical Instruction
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Publications cited:

Williams 1896 Williams, Ernest Edwin 1896. "Made in Germany", London: William Heinemann
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 358.

Is This the End of Explosives in War? Or, the Miracle of the Marconi Waves

Anon

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Publications abstracted:

Henry J W Dam Dam, Henry Jackson Wells (fl. 1892) WBI
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, Strand Magazine Strand Magazine (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Wonder, Electromagnetism, Physics, Ether, Materialism, Psychical Research, Telegraphy, Commerce, Military Technology


    Although the 'novelty of the Röntgen Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845–1923) DSB
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rays has hardly worn off', the public is now 'confronted with a much more startling development of the electronic miracle', and 'one which brings the science of the Materialist very close indeed to the speculations of the Borderlanders'. The 'young Anglo-Italian' Guglielmo Marconi Marconi, Guglielmo (1874–1937) DSB
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has been able to generate electromagnetic waves which far surpass the transmission distance achieved by Hertz Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf (1857–94) DSB
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rays, and, in the opinion of William H Preece Preece, Sir William Henry (1834–1913) ODNB
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, we are now 'on the verge of a discovery which will enable any one to telegraph anywhere without the aid of wires, posts, and cables'. The potential of wireless telegraphy is indeed 'a lively look out for the cable companies'. Marconi's electric rays can also be used to detonate explosives from a distance, and this 'evolution of science should practically abolish gunpowder by rendering its use impossible' because 'its presence would be a much greater danger to the army that carried it than to the enemy against whom it would be used'.



Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 358.

Battling by Balloon

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Baden F S Baden-Powell Baden-Powell, Baden Fletcher Smyth (1860–1937) WBI
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, United Service Magazine United Service Magazine (1889–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Aeronautics, Transport, Military Technology


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 359.

Wonders That Yet May Come. A Vision of Things to Come

Anon

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Publications abstracted:

George P Lathrop Lathrop, George Parsons (1851–98) WBI
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, English Illustrated Magazine English Illustrated Magazine (1883–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Science Fiction, Futurism, Invention, Bacteriology, Telegraphy


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 360.

Why Not Try for the South Pole? A Plea for an Antarctic Expedition

Anon

Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Scottish Geographical Magazine Scottish Geographical Magazine (1885–1900+) BUCOP
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, Carsten E Borchgrevink Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg (1864–1934) CBD
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, Strand Magazine Strand Magazine (1891–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Exploration, Physical Geography, Navigation

People mentioned:

Fridtjof Nansen Nansen, Fridtjof (1861–1930) DSB
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 360.

[The Formation of Sand-dunes]

Anon

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Publications abstracted:

Vaughan Cornish Cornish, Vaughan (1862–1948) ODNB
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, Geographical Journal Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1855–92) Geographical Journal, including Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1893–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Physical Geography


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 361.

The Family Life of Animals. From a Sociological Point of View

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Sigurd Ibsen Ibsen, Sigurd (b. 1859) WBI
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, Kringsjaa Kringsjaa (1893–1900+) COPACRLIN
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Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Anthropomorphism, Sociology


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 365.

The Deadly Trade of Matchmaking. Evidence from France

Anon

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Publications abstracted:

Emile F Magitot Magitot, Emile Félix (1833–97) WBI
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, Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Industrial Chemistry, Industry, Health


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 369.

The Living Envelope of the World

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Grant Allen Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB
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, Longman's Magazine Longman's Magazine (1882–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Geology, Microbiology


Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 371–72.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

George D Campbell Campbell, George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900) ODNB
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, Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Evolution, Darwinism

People mentioned:

Herbert Spencer, Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB
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Robert A T G Cecil (3rd Marquess of Salisbury) Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) ODNB
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 373.

Borderland

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Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

William Crookes Crookes, Sir William (1832–1919) DSB ODNB
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, Borderland Borderland (1893–97) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Psychical Research, Scientific Practitioners


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 375.

The North American Review

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Publications reviewed:

Carroll D Wright Wright, Carroll Davidson (1850–1909) WBI
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, North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Crime, Mental Illness, Morality


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 380.

Blackwood's Magazine

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Louis Robinson Robinson, Louis (b. 1857) WBI
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, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Edinburgh Monthly Magazine (1817) Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Darwinism, Amateurism, Human Development


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 389–95.

Some Notable Books of the Month

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Publications abstracted:

Richardson 1897 Richardson, Benjamin Ward 1897. Vita Medica: Chapters of Medical Life and Work, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Surgery, Sanitation, Temperance


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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 413–23.

The Progress of the World

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Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Medical Practitioners, Gender, Imperialism, Hunting, Natural Imperialism, Extinction


    Reports that in the General Post Office General Post Office
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reforms announced in the budget the 'free delivery of telegrams' outside of London will be extended 'to an area of three miles instead of one, as at present'. Until now people outside of the mile limit have had to 'pay sixpence porterage for every telegram that [they] receive, equal to a tax of 100 per cent. on the cost of the telegram'. Meanwhile, the 'great nation which lives in the metropolitan area is to have its telegrams delivered free at any hour of the night and day, and on every day of the week'. (416) Prints a letter that George F Hamilton Hamilton, Lord George Francis (1845–1927) ODNB
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, the Secretary of State for India, addressed to the Indian Government, which seeks to 'diminish the prevalence of venereal disease among the British troops serving in the East' without resorting to measures that could be viewed as encouraging vice, by obliging women who will not attend a hospital to leave the cantonment and also by employing female hospital assistants. The British committee of the Federation for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice Federation for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice
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is nevertheless fiercely resisting 'even this minimised concession to the clamour of the doctors and the officers', and Josephine E Butler Butler, Josephine Elizabeth (1828–1906) ODNB
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has warned that the proposals mean that 'the door is left wide open [...] for the easy and speedy reintroduction of the whole system of regulated vice in one form or another'. (420) Relates the findings of David S Jordan Jordan, David Starr (1851–1931) WBI
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, who 'made investigations on the subject with scientific aid', regarding the protection of fur seals from being hunted to extinction. He recommends that all that is necessary is to 'round up the adult male seals in a three hundred acre body of salt water which could be surrounded with three miles of fencing, and to brand all the female fur seals by a series of bars across the skin of the back, so as to deprive their skins of any market value'. (423)



Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 450.

The Progress of Medicine During the Reign. Sixty Years of Surgery and Physic

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Malcolm A Morris Morris, Sir Malcolm Alexander (1849–1924) WBI
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, Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Progress, Medical Treatment, Surgery, Pathology, Anaesthesia, Antiseptics, Instruments, Physics, Bacteriology, Sanitation, Specialization


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 451.

The Fight Against Disease. By Pasteur's Successor

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Emile Duclaux Duclaux, Émile (1840–1904) DSB
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, Revue de Paris Revue de Paris (1894–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Disease, Bacteriology, Medical Treatment, Vaccination

Institutions mentioned:

Institut Pasteur, Paris Institut Pasteur, Paris
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 460.

What Shall be Done for the Navy Royal Navy
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? By Mr. W. Laird Clowes

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William L Clowes Clowes, Sir William Laird (1856–1905) ODNB
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, Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Steamships, Military Technology


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 461.

The Genesis of the Maxim Gun. An Interview with Mr. Maxim

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Frank Banfield Banfield, Frank (fl. 1884–88) WBI
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, Cassell's Family Magazine Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper (1853–67) Cassell's Magazine (1867–74) Cassell's Family Magazine (1874–97) Cassell's Magazine of Fiction (1897–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Invention, Military Technology

People mentioned:

Hiram S Maxim Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens (1840–1916) ODNB
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    Describes the 'invention of the weapon which has become a veritable sceptre of civilisation among the savage races of the world'.



Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 466.

Our Modern Public Schools. Wanted, an Educational Council

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Frederic W Farrar Farrar, Frederic William (1831–1903) ODNB
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, Temple Magazine Temple Magazine (1896–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Education, Schools, Class

People mentioned:

Charles R Darwin Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–82) DSB
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 473.

The Nineteenth Century

Anon

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Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Sydney S Buckman Buckman, Sydney Savory (1860–1929) ODNB
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, Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Human Development, Comparative Philology


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 476.

The Westminster Review

Anon

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Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Benjamin W Elmy Elmy, Benjamin W (1838–1906) WIVP
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, William J Corbet Corbet, William Joseph (1824–1909) WIVP
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, Westminster Review Westminster Review (1846–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Medical Practitioners, Gender, Imperialism | Mental Illness


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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 519–28.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary

Relevant illustrations:

map

Subjects:

Photography, Technology, Electricity, Accidents, Engineering, Government


    Reflects on the recent 'holocaust of Paris [...] one of the most terrible fire tragedies of modern times', in which over 140 people, 'mostly fashionable ladies' attending a charitable bazaar, were killed (526–27). The terrible fire began when the 'electric current that was used for the purpose of working a Kinematograph set fire to some combustibles in its immediate neighbourhood' (527). Also reports the opening of 'the Blackwall Tunnel Blackwall Tunnel
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, the one great engineering work that the County Council London County Council
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has executed'. The 'tunnel has been five years in the making', and 'Eight hundred men have been employed in the work, the cost of which is £871,000'. (528)



Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 533–45.

Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. VI.—After Sixty Years  [6/6]Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. I.—From Republicanism to Monarchy', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 15–30
Anon, 'Her Majesty the Queen. A Series of Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign. IV.—The Queen as Head of the Church', Review of Reviews, 15 (1897), 321–35

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Genre:

Biography, Serial

Relevant illustrations:

photo. [2]

Subjects:

Evolution, Prehistory, Geology, Biology, Archaeology, Materialism, Matter Theory, Microbiology, Astronomy, Spectroscopy, Photography, Mapping, Light, Electromagnetism, Ether, Physics, Engineers, Steam-power, Electricity, Telegraphy


    Begins a review of the numerous achievements of Queen Victoria's Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India (1819–1901) ODNB
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sixty-year reign, by remarking upon the 'marvellous shifting of the perspective' of time and space held by 'our grandfathers'. The Victorians have 'awakened to a sense of the antiquity of our lineage', and 'are beginning to discern somewhat of the massy foundations upon which long æons since was based the evolutionary process'. While the 'Elizabethan age owed much of its stimulus and inspiration to the discovery of another world across the Atlantic', these discoveries cannot be 'compared with the rapid unfolding of the marvellous records of the eternity of past time with which we have been familiarised by the researches of the biologist, the reading of the book on geology, and the patient digging of the archæologist'. (535) Although the Queen's record reign is often called 'a Materialist age, which has chained the soul of man to inert matter', in fact 'science proclaims that there is no such thing as inert matter, that every atom is alive, and that our mortal bodies are vast composite conglomerations of living organisms' (535–36). By advances in fields such as microbiology ('the microbe was practically unknown when the Queen came to the throne'), astronomy, and spectroscopy, 'science has revealed to us a new Heaven and a new Earth' which are 'infinitely marvellous', and 'Behind each discovery that advances our knowledge, the infinite unknown indefinitely recedes'. However, 'far more stupendous are the discoveries that have been made not in the infinitely distant abysses of space, but in the infinitesimally small molecules which are all around. Science has sent its Röntgen Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845–1923) DSB
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ray through the darkened veil, and revealed the Invisible, and summoned all men to enjoy it as their inheritance'. (536) Also pronounces the Queen's reign the 'Age of the Engineer', and insists that the 'Master-men of the Reign have been, not the politicians and statesmen, the soldiers and sailors, the poets and artists—they have been the engineers, the shipbuilders, the electricians, the men who have yoked the thunderbolts of Jupiter to the hammer of Vulcan, and have usurped the authority of Neptune over the waves at the same time they have outstripped the herald Mercury by the speed of their despatches. The steam-engine, the steamship, and the electric wire have, in sixty years, effected a more revolutionary change in the conception of distance than all the millenniums that have passed since the Stone Age' (537).



Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 551.

The Genius of Races and Classes

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Charles H Cooley Cooley, Charles Horton (1864–1929) RLIN
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, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1890–1900+) RLIN
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Subjects:

Genius, Heredity

People mentioned:

Francis Galton Galton, Sir Francis (1822–1911) DSB ODNB
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Section: The Jubilee in the June Magazines

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 560–61.

The Progress of Engineering. A Record of Sixty Years

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

G R Fleming Fleming, Mr G R (fl. 1897) RR1/15/6a/4
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, Good Words Good Words (1860–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Progress, Engineering, Steamships, Railways, Manufactories


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 561.

What May be in 1947. By Mr. Frank R. Stockton

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Francis R Stockton Stockton, Francis Richard (1834–1902) CBD
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, Harper's New Monthly Magazine Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850–99) Harper's Monthly Magazine (1899–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Futurism, Science Fiction, Steamships, Transport, Electricity


Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 567.

Athletics and Long Life; or, The Secret of Healthy Exercise

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Dudley A Sargent Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849–1924) WBI
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, North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Health, Ageing


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 573.

The Chinese Woman. A French Study of Our Yellow Sisters

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Abstract

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Maurice A L M Courant Courant, Maurice Auguste Louis Marie (1865–1935) RLIN
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, Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Race, Ethnology, Gender


Section: The Reviews Reviewed

Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 575–76.

The Contemporary Review

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Ferdinand C S Schiller Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott (1864–1937) ODNB
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, Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Darwinism, Design


Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 576–77.

The United Service Magazine

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Wilkinson D Bird Bird, Sir Wilkinson Dent (1869–1943) WBI
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, United Service Magazine United Service Magazine (1889–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Invention, Military Technology

People mentioned:

Hiram S Maxim Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens (1840–1916) ODNB
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 584.

The Century

Anon

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Century Magazine Century (1871–77) Scribner's Monthly (1877–81) Century Magazine (1881–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Astronomy, Observatories, Universities, Gender

People mentioned:

Williamina P Fleming Fleming (née Stevens), Williamina Paton (1857–1911) DSB WBI
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Institutions mentioned:

University of Harvard—Observatory University of Harvard—Observatory
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Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 587–92.

The Book of the Month. "The Notables of Britain": A Portrait Gallery of Contemporaries

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

[Stead, ed.] 1897a [Stead, William Thomas], ed. 1897a. Notables of Britain: An Album of Portraits and Autographs of the Most Eminent Subjects of Her Majesty in the 60th Year of Her Reign, London: Review of Reviews Office
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Secularism, Religion


    Maintains that 'the Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India (1819–1901) ODNB
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is more Victorian than Mr. Gladstone Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–98) ODNB
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', for the 'Queen, with her broad latitudinarianism, her supreme indifference to forms and ceremonies, and her steady devotion to the weighty matters of righteousness rather than to the tithe of mint, anise and cummin, represents far more faithfully the spirit of the times than any of her ecclesiastically minded subjects. The Victorian age may have witnessed the labours of Newman Newman, John Henry (1801–90) ODNB
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and Pusey Pusey, Edward Bouverie (1800–82) ODNB
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and Liddon Liddon, Henry Parry (1829–90) ODNB
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, but it was more conspicuously the age of Darwin Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–82) DSB
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, of Spencer Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB
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, and of Mill Mill, John Stuart (1806–73) DSB
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' (587).



Review of Reviews,  15 (1897), 593–600.

Some Notable Books of the Month

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Conway 1897 Conway, William Martin 1897. The First Crossing of Spitsbergen: Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey, with Descriptions of Several Mountain Ascents, of Boat Expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a Voyage to North-East-land, the Seven Islands, Down Hinloopen Strait, Nearly to Wiches Land, and into Most of the Fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an Almost Complete Circumnavigation of the Main Island, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York: C. Scribner's Sons
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Subjects:

Exploration, Mapping, Physical Geography, Amateurism


    Observes that William M Conway Conway, William Martin, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856–1937) ODNB
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'does not look down with scorn upon the tourist; on the contrary, he thinks the tourist is an invaluable ally of the scientific investigator'. If only 'summer travellers could be induced to visit' Spitsbergen, then, as has happened with the Alps, 'it might be possible to get a portion of the Arctic land minutely studied and exactly surveyed'. (600)



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