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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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by the Tartars. Nearly every nation onthe Asiatic mainland was conquered, and theChinese suffered most terribly from their in-vasion. The Yellow Peril will never come again.If it comes at all, it will be at the time whenEuropean civilization has retrograded andEuropeans return to a condition of savagery farbelow that of their ancestors before the days ofCaesar. The Yellow Peril is only possiblewhen the Asiatics are superior to the Europeansin culture, science, art, and general civilization.just as the Europeans, superior to the Asiaticsin these respects, now dominate Asia. It willcome when Europe and America, weakened byincessant wars, are so helpless that not only theAsiatics, but even the Eskimos and Laplanderswill be able to dictate terms. When the Asi-atics are able to overrun Europe and Americait will not be the day o( a ■ Yellow Peril, butthe day of a golden era. If that day evercomes, it will mean that the Asiatics are so su-perior that they deserve the conquest of the world.
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SOME PROMINENT ITALIAN PERIODICALS. WHAT THE PEOPLE READ IN ITALY. THE Italians, while one of the oldest races,form one of the newest nations on the con-tinent of Europe. Their periodical press is perhaps the youngest, and Italy has no such modernperiodical literature as we find in other countries.It is only thirty-four years since what is now thekingdom of Italy numbered many different smallstates and governments, and in most of thesepolitical liberty was very much restricted byabsolutism. Political discussion especially wasdangerous, and in Lombardy, which was thenunder Austrian rule, even historical writing wasforbidden. The writing of philosophical workswas absolutely prohibited under the Papal gov-ernment up to 1871. Gradually, periodicals be-gan to appear, and to-day, while there is a freepress, it is young and comparatively limitedin number. Besides these conditions, the Ital-ians seem naturally to take more to books thanto periodicals. The educated people read liter-ature in b

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