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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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velandsVenezuelan Commission. His most conspicuousservice was the ambassadorship to Germany inthe years 1897-1903. During that period hesuccessfully conducted the affairs of the embassythroughout the trying months of the Spanish-American War and was president of the Amer-ican delegation at the Hague Conference. Inthe extracts from his diary at that time we havethe inside history of the efforts that led to theestablishment of an international arbitration tri-bunal. The bare enumeration of these variousand important diplomatic offices suggests thewealth of these memoirs in the materials ofmodeim history. Not less substantial is the contriI)ution thatMr. White makes, through his autobiography, tothe history of higher education in An>erica.He has watched the whole development of themodern university on our soil. As a youngprofessor in the University of Micliigan heformed ideals which later took definite form inCornell University, of which he was the first J A NOTABLE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 553
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Photo^aphed especially for the Review of Reviews by Davis & Sanford. New York. HON. ANDREW D. WHITE. president. He was one of the pioneers inAmerican university buildinp:. In the closing chapters of his autobiograpliytlie author of The Warfare of Science witliTheology expounds his conception of religion,—the bringing of humanity into norninl rela- tions with that Power, not ourselves, in theuniverse which makes for righteousness. Anyfair or adequate review of his achievementsmust lead to tlie conclusion that this noble idealhas truly inspired the varied and useful activitiesthat have filled the life of Andrew 1). White. CHICAGOS VOTE FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. BY AN IMPARTIAL OBSERVER. A LOCAL election of national signilicancotook place in Cliicago on April 4. Theeditor of this Review directed attention, in theApril issue, to the canvass then in progress inthe • Western metropolis and the importantissue which it presented to the voters concernedtherein. Now that the citizens of

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