Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Nordau 1895b Dixon 1895 Beddard 1895 Macpherson, Stuart-Wortley and Shand 1895

Subjects:

Degeneration, Reading, Ornithology, Biogeography, Natural Law, Textbooks, Natural History, Hunting

    Comments on 'the Nordau "boom" which followed the appearance of "Degeneration"', and suggests that his new volume is 'as strenuous and fearless as the most sensation-loving reader could desire', although the indictment that it makes against modern civilization is 'generally wrong-headed' (183).