Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (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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she was welcomed by represent-atives of all nations as leader of the women ofthe world. None ever has received such rec-ognition because of service rendered to human-ity. In history she will be known as the Lib-erator of AVoman, and endless generations willread the story of her life with gratitude andreverence. It will be always a matter of thekeenest regret that she did not live to see theentire realization of her three-score years ofheroic effort, but she died in the perfect faithtliat in the not distant future women will surelybe protected by the law in their jjolitical rightsas they are to-day in all others. She found herdeepest pleasure in the thought of the millionsnow in the fullest enjoyment of the new worldwhich has been opened to them. All the vastarmy who are carrying forward her work to com-pletion, all who shall hereafter take it up, willreceive as a blessed inheritance something of herindomitable will, splendid courage, limitless pa-tience, perseverance, optimism, faith.
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THE KEYBOARD OF THE SYSTEM OF TELHAKMONY. (With which the performer plays upon the bank of alternators.) THE TELHARMONIUiM: ELECTRICITYSALLIANCE WITH MUSIC. BY THOMAS COMMERFORD MARTIN. IN the new art of telharmony we have thelatest gift of electricity to civilization, anart which, while abolishing every musical instru-ment, from the jews-harp to the cello, giveseverybody cheaply, and everywhere, more musicthan they ever had before. There are so manyfundamental and revolutionary ideas embodiedin the invention that it will be a long time be-fore we grasp or grow accustomed to them all ;and only one or two can now be accentuated.Electricity has been the greatest centralizing,unifying, force these hundred years, and the tietliat binds is distinctively made of wire. Theart of telharmony pushes one degree furtherthe dominant principle of current-productionembodied in the telegraph office, the telephoneexchange, the electric-light plant, and the trolleypower-house; and it emphasizes just a

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