Identifier: reviewofreviewsw42newy (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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tory and general behavior of thisdreaded plague. Already cholera has becomea great national calamity for Russia. Untilthe present summer the scourge had beenconfined, for the most part, to cities andtowns along the main routes of travel. It isnow invading the rural villages, where theignorant and superstitious population is ut-terly unable to cope with it. The authoritiesin St. Petersburg confess that they wouldprefer to deal with revolution rather than cholera. Sanitary science has advanced farin Russia, but the great bulk of the peasantsare so ignorant that they regard smit.isures with positive hostility. In realityre are a number of diseases to which weWestern people- are subject that are m<idly in their ravages than 1 holera, but thidreadi d reputation of 1 he \ iati< ould be < it* d toprove tructiv)human life in this country than cholera in of the same ■note 1 h< fai 1tati idc < amp i■ • ted in that di telli .... i,- »hoid. 418 THE AMERICAS REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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PAUL RAINEY AND HARRY WHITNEY. THE ARCTIC HUNTERS AND EXPLORERS The New ^ (,n-v within the pa-t few yearsinterest in that municipal giivernments andthe general public itself has begun to realize the educational value of menageriesand botanical gardens. Until quite recently the cities of the Old World have offered to their(itizens much more extensive and better con-ducted enterprises of this -ort than Americani ities; New York, however, is now becoming( ne of the leader- in this regard. The botanical and zoological gardens in Bronx Park challenge comparison with any others in theworld, it they do not excel in the r.subjects ami their accessibility to the public. A noteworthy feature of this new interest inthe animal world i> the increasing Dumbvaluable gifts from private sources. Especially worthy of mention is the gift of Arctic animals just made to the Bronx by the Arctic hunters and explorers, Harry Whitney .. :I J. Rainey. who have recently returned from a

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