iS6 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



National Efficiency Committee has published several statements 

 of policy on this subject and, it is to be hoped, will turn its 

 attention to many other subjects requiring attention which have 

 hitherto been left too exclusively in the hands of politicians. 



The Napier Tercentenary, and the Invention of Logarithms 



We regret that we have not been able to publish in this 

 number a very interesting article upon the International 

 Congress held last year in connection with the Napier 

 Tercentenary, but hope to be able to give it to our readers in 

 the October number. The article is written by Dr. C. G. Knott, 

 the Secretary of the Congress and the Editor of the Memorial 

 Volume which will be produced in the autumn (and copies of 

 which may be obtained by non-members of the Congress from 

 Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., Paternoster Row, London, 

 E.C.). Copies of the Handbook to the Exhibition may also be 

 obtained through Messrs. G. Bell & Sons, York House, Portugal 

 Street, London, W.C. 



"The Monist" 



The number of this quarterly for last April contains some 

 interesting matter. Mr. P. E. B. Jourdain has made a special 

 study of the historical aspects of Newton's work, which is of 

 perennial interest to all men of science. He now continues 

 this historical study in connection with Newton's hypotheses of 

 ether and of gravitation from 1679-93. There are also very 

 interesting articles on the Disciples of John and the Odes of 

 Solomon by Preserved Smith ; on the Methods of Theoretical 

 Physics by Ludwig Boltzmann ; on the Experience of Time by 

 Bertrand Russell ; many useful discussions, and the reprint of 

 an extract from a paper by Sir John Herschell on Hindoo 

 Mathematics. We are specially struck by a very beautiful poem 

 called " The Over God " by Mr. Paul Carus — beautiful because of 

 its simple sincerity and the essential grandeur of its subject. 

 Much of the poetry of the day consists merely of little verbal 

 prettinesses, has no subject of importance, and is backed by 

 no experience of real things or genuine knowledge. More 

 poems by men of science would probably serve to set a higher 

 tone in literature. 



