The outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War made many English-speaking readers realize that they knew next to nothing about either nation. Technical World magazine stepped in with a short list of interesting statistics showing that, overall, Japan was the more developed of the two—a fact that seems astonishing given the short history of industrial development in Japan.
The visit of Dr. Johann Spurzheim to the United States infected our country with a mania for phrenology. This elaborately worked out science lacked nothing but truth to make it one of the greatest contributions to human knowledge in the history of the world.
British Columbia has always been its own world, and well into the age of the automobile it was alone in Canada, and indeed in North America (certain islands excepted), in driving on the left side of the road. It was a great undertaking when the province decided to match the right-side-of-the-road practice in the rest of the country.
The Southern Literary Messenger, the brightest literary light of the South, continued publishing nearly to the end of the Civil War. Here in the February 1864 issue we find the editor ruminating on the pessimism of Confederate citizens and the many reasons to be cheerful about the prospects of the war.
A good overview of the state of vampires in legend and literature before Bram Stoker, which then veers into a discussion of the utopian possibilities if mesmeric theory were to prove true (which the author does not appear to expect).