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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
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nd commerceclasses were poorer paid and worked more between the two be brought about. Suchhours than at home. In fact, every investiga- an alliance, with immediate cessation oftor seemed to discover what he wished to find, expenditure over sea-power agreed upon,Nearly every delegate published his report, would have the greatest material value,with the result that England has had a plague besides practically insuring the peace ofof leaflets. Hundreds described what they Europe and Asia for years to come. Withbelieved they saw, but one tripper Tersely told the Anglo-Japanese treaty soon to expire,what he did not see, and this was the best the most brilliant achievement open tore))ort of the avalanche. Here is what he British statesmanship would surely be thesaid of Germany: No unemployed standing securing of an alliance with the rival acrossat street corners. No drunkenness or brawl- the North Sea whose progress is astonishinging. No hooliganism. No slums of poverty the world—Germany.
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CopynyUl. 1911, by Tiie Review of Reviews Company SIGNAL CORPS RECONNOITERING AT FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA THE SIGNAL CORPS IN THECIVIL WAR BY A. W. GREELY (Major-General United States Army) (Following is the account of the Signal Service operations of the Civil War especially prepared byGeneral Greely for the Photographic History of the Civil War and this magazine. It is the seventharticle in our anniversary series and is illustrated entirely from war-time photographs.—The Editor.) ^^O other arm of the military services dur-ing the Civil War excited a tithe of thecuriosity and interest which surrounded theSignal Corps. To the onlooker the mes-sages of its waving flags, its winking lightsand its rushing rockets were always mysticin their language, while their tenor was oftenfraught with thrilling import and productiveof far-reaching effects. The signal system, an American device,was tested first in border warfare againsthostile Navajos; afterward, the quick-wittedsoldiers of both the

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