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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, however, is, of course, purely her own affair.It is enough to know that she has been quite as pro-gressive as the United States upon the tariff question,and has always come more than half way when mu-tual concessions have been under consideration. The United States has exactly the same problem tosolve (how best to raise the revenue which must notbe raised by a protective tariff), and there are evi-dences that the coming Congress will be ready with,a proper solution of the difficulty. VACCINATION AGAINST CHOLERA. BY THE FIRST WOMAN WHO SlIBMITTHI) TO TIIH I:XII:RIMHNT. * r~^ rVE a dog a bad name and lian^ him appliesVJT to cities as well as to people, and for manya day the saying has been pretty generally appliedto Paris by those who do not look below the surface ofthings. One grows v/eary of the hackneyed simile, Paris is like champagne, the froth once gone it soonfalls flat and stale. To commonplace people the City of Light is rep-resented by the Champs Elysees on a sunny afternoon
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M. PASTEUR. in the month of May, the shops in the Rue de la Paix,the Acacias from six to seven, the cafe concerts,masked balls, and so on to the end of the dull list. The great world of thought and toil teeming behindthis screen of frivolity is a dead letter to them. Yetthis world exists with an intensity which had neverbeen surpassed at any epoch during the history ofmankind. Notwithstanding their reputation to the contrary,Frenchmen have immense powers of patience. Notthe plodding of the Germans, nor the * dogged ofthe English, but strong, fine patience in the highestsense of the word. They will work steadily on theplan they have mapped out for themselves and if it Is realizable they will carry it out; but they work intelligently and, \\\nm tlie i)nneii)le that all workand no play makes Jack a dull boy, vary th(;ir la)x»rby a number of outside interests that prfjvent themfrom ever settling down into mere drudgery. Here we find surgeons who are sculptors, judge.swho are novelists, a

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