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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 224 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, See also:Lat. re and videre)  , an inspection or See also:critical examination; it is chiefly used as a military or See also:naval See also:term for an inspection on a large or formal See also:scale of a See also:fleet or See also:body of troops by the See also:sovereign or other See also:person holding a high See also:official position, or for a critical See also:account of a recently published See also:literary See also:work in a See also:magazine or periodical . The earliest use of the word for the See also:title of such a periodical was in the See also:paper begun by See also:Defoe in 1704, the full title of which was A See also:Review of the Affairs of See also:France and of all See also:Europe, as influenced by that Nation (see See also:PERIODICALS and See also:NEWSPAPERS) . In France there is a particular application of the term revue or, more fully, revue de fin d'annee to a See also:form of dramatic performance, acted or sung, in which the See also:chief events of the past See also:year, and the personages who have been prominently before the public, are satirically and critically passed under review . Attempts have been made to trace such performances to an See also:early origin . In their See also:modern form, however, they date from the reign of See also:Louis Philippe . L'An 184z et ran 1941, by the See also:brothers Cogniard, was one of the earliest .

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