Identifier: reviewofreviewsw40newy (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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^m^ <r^j- THE NEW NUKSE. From the Traveler (Boston). ASOTHEK MARATHON. From the World (New York). On .Tuly 14 Prince von Billow was succeeded by The revolution in Persia during .Tuly forcedDr. Theobald von Bethmann-IIollweg as Chancellor another Kastcni potentate, Mohammid Ali, Shah ofof the German Empire. Iersia, from his throne.
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THE LATE SIMON NEWCOMB.(Born, March 12, 1835; died, July li, 1909.) SIMON NEWCOMB: AMERICAS FORE-MOST ASTRONOMER. BY ARTHUR E. BOSTWTCK. A MONG those in all parts of tlu worldwhose good opinion is worth having,Simon Newcomb was one of the best knownof Americas great men. Astronomer, mathe-matician, economist, novelist, he had well-nigh boxed the compass of human knowledge,attaining eminence such as is given to fewto reach, at more than one of its points. Hisfame was of the far-reaching kind,—pene-trating to remote regions, while that of someothers has only created a noisy disturbancewithin a narrow radius. Best and most widely known as an astron-omer, his achievements in that science werenot suited for sensational exploitation. Hediscovered no apple-orchards on the moon,neither did he dispute regarding the railwayson the planet Venus. His aim was to makestill more exact our knowledge of the mo-tions of the bodies constituting what we callthe solar system, and his labors toward thise

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