Identifier: reviewofreviewsw59newy (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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rustees, who will collect and pool the profits forthe common advantage of all the beneficiaries.This cannot be done in a day; but a beginningcould be made at once, and the area of adminis-tration rapidly extended. Industries to whichthe principle could be applied without delay arethose of the Westphalian coal-mines, the potas-sium-beds, and the woods and forests. Coal,timber, and potassium are commodities which,at present, are not only readily salable, butbadly needed. In none of the three industriesneed there be any question of unprofitable ex-ploitation ; in each of them there is a substantialmargin of profit after working; expenses havebeen paid. It would be a simple matter, there-fore, for France and England, with a mandatefrom the other Allies, to take over these threegoing concerns, with the existing personnel, paythe working expenses, and devote the profits toany purpose to which they might, by agreement,be ear-marked. 644 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS ROOSEVELT THE NATURALIST
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(T) Charles Scribners Sons. From African Game Trails COLONEL ROOSEVELT AS HUNTER OF BIG GAME (As is clearly brought out in the context, ColonelRoosevelts activities as a hunter directly served hisintense interest in natural history) THE sumptuous magazine formerlycalled the Ainerican Museum Journalhas adopted the new name Natural History,and the initial number bearing this title ismainly devoted to paying homage to a dis-tinguished American naturalist recently de-ceased—Theodore Roosevelt. It includesanecdotal tributes to the great mans memoryfrom the pens of John Burroughs, HenryFairfield Osborn, Robert E. Peary, Carl A.Akeley, David Starr Jordan and GiffordPinchot, together with a series of photo-graphs recalling Roosevelts achievements invarious fields. To the rule that versatility implies super-ficiality the case of Roosevelt furnishes ashining exception. Dr. Osborn, president ofthe American Museum of Natural History,writes of him: An American statesman, who should haveknown bet

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