Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (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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tend the Empire than diminish it. Nr)W tJ)eLittle Englanders have it all their own way.This being the case it is more than ever a matter forrejoicing That the Dail/j Chroniele should Ix; rajudlyrising to a i)Osition of leading rank and influence inthe London press. It is the only Liberal paper of anykind that ventures to lead, and it may be dc^stinedto give the new Imperial Home Rule leadership forwhich one may search in vain in the House of Com-mons. The Daily Telegraph is not holding its own inthe competition, the Standard is conservative andstereotyped, and the Daily Neirs, which has neverdone anything since its Bulgarian atrocities, haswaxed emjjhatic last month in favor of the skedaddlefrom Central Africa. The field is open to theChronicle, and the gradual transformation of thatpaper into a Liberal Imperialistic advocate ofHome Rule is another of those important factors inthe making of contemporaneous history, of w^hichlittle or no account is taken by the journalists ofLondon. w^
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THE MECHANICAL FOOTBALLER. Some time ago the English papers announced the invention of a Mechanical Bowler. We pursue the ideastill further. Why not have Mechanical Football Players, managed from the reserve, as torpedoes are fromshore ? They wouldnt use bad language, or • plug the umpire. Let some of our bnlhant young mventors carrythis idea out Cand bury it.—Ed. P.) From the Melbourne Punch. RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS. October 21.—Columbus Day celebrated throughout theUnited States ; in Chicago the Worlds Fair buildings arededicated ; prayer is offered by Bishop Fowler and Car-dinal Gibbons, and orations are made by Mr. ChaunceyDepew and Mr. Henry Watterson ; a military parade withfifteen thousand men in line, and at night a magnificentdisplay of fireworks ; the Auxiliary Congress also opened ; Archbishop Ireland delivering the ^oration Minneapolis chosen as the meeting place of the next Episcopal GeneralConvention. October 22.—A number of State buildings at the WorldsFair ded

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