Image: Review of reviews and world's work (1890) (14781699331)

Description: Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches) Title: Review of reviews and world's work Year: 1890 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: t thatmoment treading the air of thestadium in spiked shoes, hemade his way across the fieldand through the tunnel to thedressing-room, and there gra-ciously posed for four artistsand any number of photogra-phers. It has been fully demon-strated, in Mr. Connollysopinion, that the Olympicchampionships should becontested only in Greece,since only in that countryare the people imbued withtrue reverence for the oldtraditions. From this yearsmeet it is to be hoped thatsport will receive a freshand lasting impulse. It wasreally the people of Greece,as Mr. Connolly shows, thatmade the festival of 1896a great success. It wasa spirit that no other mod-ern nation could have gen- erated over an athletic fes-tival, and it is that spirit which the Olympic gamesof the future may be made to serve. It is thatspirit which is the thing, and if it be not bornin us, let us try to absorb it ; and if we are notequal to that, then at least to learn to appreciateit ; and if we come to do no more, to at least Text Appearing After Image: Stereograph, Copyright, 1906, by Underwood & Underwood, N. V. THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN THE STADIUM AT ATHENS, (Young Greeks preparing for the recent contests.) pass the appreciation of it to our descendants,by whom it may be inade to lead to so much,for no country can find greater use for it thanour own, which is standing now, awake andeager, where old Greece once stood,—on thethreshold of the worlds leadership. THE LIGHT THAT EUROPE SAW AT ALGECIRAS. * T^HE conference at Algeciras has primarily-■■ this significance for the politics of thepresent and of the future,—that the relations ofthe powers are defined as distinctly as in a mir-ror, and that not diplomacy alone, but the entireeducated world, is afforded a clear insight into theactual political condition of the world. This isthe opening sentence of an elaborate article inthe Deutsche Revue (Berlin), of which the firstpart deals in detail with the points at issue, as regards Morocco, between Germany and France,—the write Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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