The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.4

Word count: 45K words
Chapters: 5

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897Author: Various,Language: English, Class: D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere, Release Date: Apr 1, 2005

Editor's review

This is Volume 1, No. 26 of The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, published May 6, 1897, a periodical that gathered current events and world reportage for its readers. Its value lies not in systematic argument but in showing how late-nineteenth-century media presented international affairs, technological progress, and exotic places to a general audience, in clear language with a strong column format and the distinctive perspectives and limitations of its time. For readers studying journalism history, popular reading matter, or the social mentality of the late Victorian era, it is usable primary material; general readers can also enjoy the interest of seeing how people of the time viewed the world. As a single issue, its contents are scattered, suited to browsing in spare moments or sampling as historical material, and one should not expect a continuous narrative.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers studying late-nineteenth-century journalism history and popular reading matter
Readers interested in the social mentality and worldview of the Victorian era
Students needing primary periodical material for class presentations or short papers
Casual readers who enjoy short current-affairs digests and fragmented reading

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting a systematic historical monograph or continuous narrative
Readers seeking analysis of contemporary international affairs
Readers unused to nineteenth-century English periodical style who need modern annotations

Reading tips

Browse the contents and columns first, then pick two or three themes to compare with today's reporting and sense the difference in perspective.
Mark events, place names, and personal names as you read, and check their later development afterward.
Treat it as historical sampling: read only a few pages at a time and note period biases and diction.
Read alongside other popular periodicals of the same period to compare how the same event was narrated differently.

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FAQ

Is this issue a complete book?

No. It is Volume 1, No. 26 of the periodical The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, a single-issue compilation made up of several short pieces rather than a monograph on a single theme.

Is the content outdated?

As current-affairs reporting, its specific information is long outdated, but as historical material it is not. Readers can focus on how it selects events and describes other countries and technology, narrative choices that reflect the media perspective of the late nineteenth century.

Is it suitable for history beginners?

It suits supplementary material rather than a main introductory line. Beginners should first have a basic framework of late-nineteenth-century history before reading this periodical, so they can judge which reports matter and which are merely period noise.

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About the author

Various Author

Various is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.