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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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n Plant 748 What Characteristics Are Inherited ? 749 With portraits, cartoons, and other illustrations. Briefer Notes on Topics in the Periodicals... 750 The Seasons Fiction Surveyed 755 With portraits and other illustrations. Other New Books 768 With portraits. TERMS: $3.00 a year in advance; 35 cents a number. Foreign postage $1.00 a year additional. Subscribers may remit to usby post-ortice or express money orders, or by bank checks, drafts, or registered letters. Money in letters is at sendersrisk. Renew as early as possible, in order to avoid a break in the receipt of the numbers. Bookdealers, Postmasters, andNewsdealers receive subscriptions. (Subscriptions to the English Review of Reviews, which is edited and published byMr. W. T. Stead in London, may be sent to this ofHce, and orders for single copies can also be filled, at the price of $2.«)for the yearly subscription, including postage, or 25 cents for single copies.) THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO..13 Aster Place, New York City.
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r.ipyriiiht, ig^. l-y Clmciiiisi. THR HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. (On Monday, May 7, the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives at Washington, reachedthe a^e of seventy. The event was celebrated by the great body over whicli he presides, and the occasiontook the form of a reception which brought togetiier probably the largest body of public men in nationallife ever assembled on a similar occasion in America. It comprised the members of both houses of Congress,the President, Vice-President, cabinet officers, members of the Supreme Court, diplomatic corps, army andnavy officers, a great number of heads of bureaus and high governnumt oflicials, and many men from out-side of Washington, including governors of States, journalists, and others prominent in affairs. Mr. Cannon isa veteran figure in the House, having been there for just a third of a century. As Speaker, his sway is mild butfirm, and he is deservedly popular. He is a plain man of the people, and his rugged ho

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