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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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7(59 With portrait of Ilonoie Balzac. Some New Books of History and Travel.... 771 With portrait of F. Marion Ciawford, and other illus- tral ions. Books for Children and Young People 774 \Vitli illn^^trations. Index to Periodicals 780 TERMS: $3.50 a year in a Ivance; 2.5 cents a number. Foreign postage $1.00 a year additional. Subscribers may remit to us rders, or by bank ciieclcs, drafts, or registered letters. Money in letters is at senders by post-office or express money on risk. Renew as early as possible in order to avoid a break in tlie receipt of tlie numbers. Bookclealers, Postmasters, and Newsdealer! Mr. W. for the 13 Astor Place, New Voi-k (ity jalers receive subscriptions. (Subscriptions to the English Rkview of Rkvikws, whicli is edited and publislied byT. Stead in London, may be sent to tins otTice. and orders for single copies can also be tilled, at the price of $2..>0yearly substrviption, including postage, or 2o cents for single copies.) THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO.,
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EMILE LOUBETo (President of France in the Exposition year, and exponent of French Republicanism and political progress.) The American Monthly Review of Reviews. Vol. XXII. NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1900. No. 6. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. The New Years Day will usher in theCenturys twentieth century. The transitionEnding. ^^^^^ however, been so much in mind,and has led to so many reviews of the periodthat lies behind us and forecasts of that which is tocome, that there is little reason for trying to addanything more by way of effort to jog the mem-ory or stimulate the imagination. As we re-marked a year ago, the century end representsno real cleavage of periods or epochs, but is animaginary line at once arbitrary and accidental.The equator is an imaginary line, but it is notaccidental. It is determined on mathematicalprinciples by essential conditions. The moststriking experiences of the human race do notaccommodate themselves in any very symmetri-cal fashion to the marshaling of the years b

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