Identifier: reviewofreviewsw30newy (find matches)
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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denly turning more than two millions of subjectsloyal to the Czar and among his most useful dependentsinto a nation of sullen though helpless foemen ? Thosewho attribute this action to the wanton and stupid bar-barism of Russia, to the narrow-minded bigotry of theOrthodox party in Russia, or to the garden-roller policyof her military despotism, do small justice to the saga-city which has always marked her advance in Europe.The step was a coolly calculated, deliberate part of herpolicy. It is the pushing forward of her truly Russianfrontier, the ,dvance of her military system, by thesubstitution of an advance guard of genuinely Russiantroops for the Finnish corps oVarmee, who, howeverloyal in the main, would not be expected to fight witha good stomach against their Swedish neighbors whensome day such services are needed. The action hasbrought Russia appreciably nearer to her goal. The moral the writer draws is that the twoScandinavian nations would do well to readjusttheir differences.
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SOME REPRESENTATIVE GEHMAN PERIODICALS WHAT THE PEOPLE READ IN GERMANY. THE Germans are essentially a reading peo-ple,—-as much as, if not more so than, any-other in the world. Their periodical literature,however, extensive and high-class as it is, is very-different from that of England or the UnitedStates, and even from that of other ContinentalEuropean countries. In the first place, it is afact that the farther south and east one goes in Eu-rope, the less influential does he find public opin-ion and the more servile the press. The Frenchpress has less freedom than that of- England,and the German less than that of France. Ger-man periodicals differ from those of the UnitedStates and England in another respect,—theyare more minutely differentiated. The Germanshave monthlies, weeklies, and dailies, and theseare usually devoted to some particular branch ofliterature, art, education, or industry ; and thereis no publication combining fact and fiction, il-lustration, poetry, history,

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