Review of Reviews,  12 (1895), 193–201.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary

Subjects:

Transport, Machinery, Gender, Progress


    Reports that the 'rage for cycling continues to spread and increase' especially among women, and remarks that 'Among all the agencies which have been influential in humanising women,—that is to say, giving them a share of the common life with its common humanities, with its weariness, thirst, hunger and adventures and general commingling with the common life of our common world, the cycle stands easily first' (201).



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