The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-16

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Review of Reviews.

The Progress of the World in the
Review OF, Reviews for January, 1897
gives an admirable resume OF the great
wor,d-events of 1896. Nowhere else can
so faithful and impartial chronicle OF
these stirring times be found. This IL
lustrated editorial summary in each
months Review is everywhere recog-
nized as one of the triumphs OF modern
journalism. The discussion of the Cuban
situation is enlivened by the reproduc-
ton of timely Spanish and Spanish
American cartoons.
"How Not to Better Social Con-
ditions" is the title of an article by
Theodore Roosevelt in the January Re-
view of Reviews. MIR. Roosevelt is per-
lnitted to publish letter addressed to
him a few months since by the Hon.
Thomas Watson, then the candidate for
vice-president on the Populist ticket with
Mr.. Bryan. This letter was occasioned
by Mr., Roosvelt's article in the Septenl-
Der Review of Reviews dealing with the
vice presidential candidates. The letter
is most important and interesting con-
tribution to what may be termed the
personal literature of the campaign; it
puts its writer in new light. and must
lead to thorough revision Of the opir-
ions about TON Watson entertained
SO generally by his political opponents.
Mr.. Walter Well1nan, the well-known
newspaper correspondent, contributes to
the January Review of Reviews the first
count of the part played by Mr.. Her
mann Koh1saat, OF the Chicago Times
Herald, in the framing OF the Republican
platform at St. Louis, and especially in
the shaping OF the gold plank.
The Review of Reviews has taken.
pains to obtain the views of ten repre-
sentative students of public finance in
the leading American universities on the
duty of congress regarding the national
revenues, the currency, and the banking
system of the country. Professors Had
ley of Yale, Taussig of Harvard, jerks
Of Cornell, Laughlin of Chicago, Sher-
wood OF Tohn Hopkins, Ross of Leland
Stanford, Folwell of Minnesota, Daniels
of Princeton, and President Adams of
the University Of Wisconsin and Slocum
OF Colorado College, take part in the
Reviews symposium.
"Some Regulations in the Crucible of
1896" is the subject treated in a brief
article by William T. Stead in the Janu
airy Review of Reviews. Mr.. Stead deals
with Bismarck, Gladstone, Cecil Rhodes,
Ii Hung Chang, Joseph Chamberlain,
and other characters of international re-
pute
The Review of Reviews for January
contains a brief description Of the New
York lodging houses now being erected
by Mr.. D. O. Mills. The article is il
Illustrated. -.'
The Baron Pierre de Coubertin. who
has won international renown by his
connection with the revived Olympic
games and wifi other important athletic
interests, writes in the January Review
of Reviews about an English patron
of athletics, Dr. Brookes OF Wenlock,
who for the past forty years has been
foremost in the agitation for physical
culture in the schools of Great Britain,
and has maintained an interesting series
of athletic contests in his own home
borough of Wenlock.
Miss Laura Carroll Dennis, writing in
the January Review OF Reviews de-
scribes recent Developments in what is
called "voice-photography" and also the
bearing of these developments on pos
sible system OF production.