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Chapters: Review of Reviews, the Morning Post, the English Review, Omaha Bee, le Charivari, the Time Traveller, Young England Magazine, the Delineator, Veien Frem, le Correspondant. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Review of Reviews was a noted family of monthly journals founded in 1890-93 by British reform journalist William Thomas Stead (1849-1912). Established across three continents in London (1891), New York (1892) and Melbourne (1893), the Review of Reviews, American Review of Reviews and Australasian Review of Reviews represented Steads dream of a global publishing empire. Stead was a career journalist who was drawn into reform politics in the 1880s, crusading through for such causes as British-Russian friendship, the reform of England's criminal codes, and the maintenance of international peace. He was most famous in Britain for having passed, almost single-handedly, the first child-protection law by investigating and reporting child vice and white slavery in a series of articles titled the Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, published in the Pall Mall Gazette in July 1885. As a result, the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 raised the consent age for girls from thirteen to sixteen, similar to "statutory rape" laws in the United States. As editor of the London Pall Mall Gazette (1883-1889), Stead caused newspapers to appear they way they are today. He introduced cross-heads (section titles) and signed articles, popularized interviews, and started illustrations and indexing. An advanced feminist, he was the first London editor to pay women equally with men. He authored many books, including The Truth about Russia (1888), If Christ Came to Chicago (1893), and The Americanization of the World (1902). His essay "How the Mail Steamer Went Dow...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=360628