Identifier: reviewofreviewsw05newy (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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s to take after hisgieat-uncle. Like him, he is figiirative and intemper-ate in speech ; like him, also, he thinks progress con-sists in pouring old wine into new bottles. Socialdemocracy is, in his eyes, the incarnation of theSatanic spirit: but it is by no exceptional measuresthat he is going to conquer this dangerous enemy.He is going to combat the genius of evil by goodlaws, which will inoculate his people with a spirit ofobedience and religious submissiven.ess, and with allsalutary respect. M. Valbert then touches on the recent Educationbill and the protest of the Berlin University. Hepoints out that the imiversities, which played so greata part in the formation of the German Empire, are apower to be reckoned with, and that, if the Emperorcomes to open war with them, he is courting almostcertain defeat. The Fallen Bismarck. Mr. Poultney Bigelow, in the Contemporary Re-vieu\ lifts up his heel against the fallen Colossus, and,,provoked by the attack on his idol, the Kaiser, in last
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-- tr 582 THE REyiEU^ OF REI/IEIVS. months Rexiew, replies by a counter attack vipon thefallen Prince and all his ways. This is his sninmaryof the results of Bismarcks rnle : Bismarck, particularly in the last ten years of liisrule, has made a bad job of nearly everything—Socialism getting from bad to worse ; Polish intrigueincreasing ; the fight with Rome ignominioiisly givenup; protection failing to do what was promised ;Russian aggression giowing every year more alarm-ing ; the French not qiiieting do\vn in the least; thepaternal plans for insuring the lives of working-men meeting with opposition amongst the verypeople whom they were intended to protect; goodGrermans keeping away from the tropical colonies hehad so beautifully arranged ; even Geffcken escapingfrom his clutches. THE KAISERS ARMY. HARPERS gives place to an elaborate article on The Gei-man Army of To-day, by Lieu-tenant-Colonel Exner, who divides his subjects bynumerous sub-titles and discusses in detail the mil-ita

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