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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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where that unhappy combination of flatByzantine patterns with realistic rendering—a fatal mistake,—all seems logically realisticin rendering. The symbolism is skilfullyunited with the anecdotal. In the Spiritof Vulcan, where the nude backs of theworkmen recall Velasquezs Forge of Vul-can, there is the same preponderance ofrealism that there is in that famous Spanishmasterpiece. The Spirit of Light with its nude figuresshows a decided departure for Abbey; but theforceful forward movement of the figures, andthe significant oil wells, their interlacing sil-houettes making distinct patterns in thebackground, are characteristic of his happyfaculty for composition. Less characteristic, perhaps, is ScienceRevealing the Treasures of the Earth; theallegory is less striking, and the many up-right lines are hardly hapjiy, maybe in colorthey are less pronounced. A fourth lunette is entitled The Spirit ofReligious Liberty—three allegorical femalefigures Hying before a fleet of old-timeships.
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THE BROTHERS MANNESMANN. OWNERS OF IMPORTANT GERMAN INTERESTS IN MOROCCO (The German firm that was mainly concerned in the Agadir incident is that of the well-known Gebriider Mannesmann,steel and iron manufacturers, of Remscheid, in Westphalia, a remarkable combination of brothers, each of whom is an expertin some special branch of the business. The five brothers are types of the German business men whose energy and pushful-ness have done so much to develop their country as a world power. One of the brothers, Reinhard, is an expert in mines,and it was he who obtained from the Sultan Abdul Aziz of Morocco the mining concessions which formed the chief basis ofGermanys claim to protect her interests in Morocco) FRENCHMAN AND GERMANIN AFRICA BY EDGAR ALLEN FORBES (Author of The Land of the White Helmet) I. France and Her African Dominions VT EARLY everything in Africa is to-daydominated by three great overlords—England, France and Germany. GreatBritain and France together control aboutt

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