Review of reviews and world's work (1890) (14741190966)

Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (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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ymust be laid in P^ngland at Christmas time in the year1892 ; that the characters, while British for the most part,must include representatives of the Continent and of theUnited States ; and that the English situations in the pre-liminary chapters must afford an easy opportunity for con-versations upon very recent questions of all sorts whichshould lay well the foundation for later observations anddiscussions in America, with due regard to strong effectsof contrast. It was also clear that the ocean would afford a neutralground, so to speak, for the discussion of many topics ofinternational range, and that the most exciting episodesand most interesting developments of the plot of the talemight well belong to the passage across the sea in one ofthe great liners. Successive chapters would be occupiedwith the landing at New York, some cursory visiting ofthe sights of Gotham and a discussion of American waysand matters that would most naturally strike a group ofEnglish visitors as unusual.
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ROSE IN THE GARDEN AT ANN HATHAWAYS COTTAGE.(An Illustration from Mr. Steads Worlds Fair Novel.) THE NEIV BOOKS. 763 Next it would bo feasible to send members of the partyby different railroad routes to Ohieaf^o, with, ixTchance,some brief visits on the way. Once arrived at (^hieaj^o,the visitors would have quite enouj^h to do with contem-plating the marvelous city itself and with their inspectionto the Worlds Fair. It would then bo easy to make it com-patible with the purposes of the plot to send the visitorson tourist trips to the Yellowstone Park, to the Canonof the Colorado, to the Yosemite Valley, or anywhereelse that for guide-book purposes might be deemed desira-ble. And all this, in fact, Mr. Stead has done, with the re-sult of producing a highly amusing and decidedly instruc-tive book, which at points is tremendously sensationaland which, while it has its flagging passages, sustains itsInterest most absorbingly to the veiy end. Consideredsimply as a love story—and this by t