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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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ikes, prompting the action of the syndicates, stir-ring up the men against the employers, advancing, incase of need, money towards the strike fund, in thecertainty that a rise in wages will ultimately be forhis benefit, and being repaid for his trouble by thechance of, at some future time, representing the laborinterest in the Chamber of Deputies. Another point touched on is the probable displace- 450 THE REyiEW OF REI^IEIVS. ment of the centre of gravity of the Catholic Church.M. Leroy-Beaulieu does not for a moment admit thatRome, is not sufficiently np to date —not equal tomeeting the needs of this or any other age—but he is^^^lling to concede that she may be played out inEurope. That is to say, the candlestick may be re-moved out of its place, and her temporal and spirit-ual power enter on a fresh lease of life in America, ALEXANDER WINCHELL THE February number of the American Geologist,a monthly magazine of geology and alliedsciences, is devoted to an editorial tribute to the
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ALEXANDER WINCHELL. late Alexander Winchell, LL.D., who was the seniormember of the Geologists editorial board until hisdeath in February of last year. The biographicalsketch makes it clear that Professor Winchell was aman of versatility, an enthusiastic and eminent scientist, and an indefatigable worker. Even in hislast illness his mind was actively forming plans forfuture work; and from his couch he promulgated anew theory which he believed would necessitate theessential modification of the La Placean nebular hy-pothesis. This was his last legacy to science. By the time he was seven years old, the youthfulmathematician had mastered the multiplication table,and Emersons First Part of mental arithmetic. Atsixteen he was a school teacher, and the collection andsolution of arithmetical problems now formed one ofhis amusements. It was some years after this that hebegan the study of the natural sciences, but he sooncame to feel that they offered even a more invitingfield than the favorite

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