Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Literary Digest, Vol. 19: A Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research, as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World; July, 1899, to December, 1899 Practical? Is high-speed, 617 Telephone, Absolution by, 530 Telephony. Wireless, 588 Temperature and Photography, 808 tenement-house Blight, Curing the, 36 Ten Per Cent. A Week, 667 Tennyson, Browning. And George Eliot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.