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The Religion of the Open Mind. By Adam Gowans Whyte, B.Sc, Author of 

 "A Comedy of Ambition," "The Templeton Tradition," " Yellowsands," 

 With Foreword by Eden Phillpotts. London: Watts & Co., 17, Johnson's 

 Court, Fleet Street, E.C., 191 3. (Pp. xi, 191.) 2s. 6d. net. 

 An excellent essay upon the scientific attitude. 



The Science of the Sciences. Constituting a New System of the Universe which 

 Solves Great Ultimate Problems. By H. Jamyn Brooks, Author of " The 

 Elements of Mind." London: David Nutt, 17, Grape Street, New Oxford 

 Street, W.C. (Pp. ix, 312.) 3^. 6d. net. 



The Britannica Year-Book, 1913. A survey of the World's Progress since 

 the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition. 

 Comprising A Register and Review of Current Events and Additions to Know- 

 ledge in Politics, Economics, Engineering, Industry, Sport, Law, Science, Art, 

 Literature, National and International, up to the end of 1912. Edited by 

 Hugh Chisholm, M.A., Oxon., Editor of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica." The 

 Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, London ; The Encyclopaedia Britannica 

 Company, New York, 1913. (Pp. xliii, 1226.) Price \os. upwards according 

 to binding. 



Begins with diaries of important events during 191 1 and 191 2, and contains 

 a series of articles on important developments during 1912 in politics, science, 

 art, archaeology, philosophy, engineering, and information on and statistics 

 of the principal countries. 



Researches on Irritability of Plants. By Jagadis Chunder Bose, M.A., D.Sc, 

 C.S.I., Professor, Presidency College, Calcutta. With Illustration. Longmans, 

 Green & Co., 39, Paternoster Row, London, New York, Bombay, and 

 Calcutta, 1913. (Pp. xxiv, 375.) 7s. 6d. net. 



A Beginner's Star-book. An Easy Guide to the Stars and to the Astronomical 

 Uses of the Opera-Glass, the Field-Glass and the Telescope. By Kelvin 

 McKready. With Charts of the Moon, Tables of the Planets, and Star Maps 

 on a new plan. Including 70 Illustrations. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New 

 York and London. The Knickerbocker Press, 1912. (Pp. 148.) 



Annual Magazine Subject- Index, 1912. A Subject-Index to a Selected List of 

 American and English Periodicals and Society Publications not Elsewhere 

 Indexed. Edited by Frederick Winthrop Faxon, A.B. (Harv.). Compiled 

 with the co-operation of Librarians. Boston : The Boston Book Company, 

 1913. (Pp. 299.) 



Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Edited by Prof. Dr. Emil 

 Abderhalden, Direktor des Physiologischen Institutes der Universitat Halle 

 a.S. Achter Band. Mit 217 Textabbildungen und 1 Tafel. Urban & 

 Schwarzenberg, Berlin N., Friedrichstrasse 105b ; Wien, I., Maximilian- 

 strasse4. 1913. Contents. The Present Position of Research in Metallurgy, 

 by Doz. Dr. W. Guertler, Berlin-Grunewald. Our Knowledge about the 

 Oldest Tetrapods, by Prof. Dr. F. Broili, Munich. The Scientific and Economic 

 Importance of Pond Management, by Doz Dr. Walter Cronheim, Berlin. 

 About the Galls in Plants (New Results and Discussions of General 

 Cecidology), by Prof. Dr. Ernst Kuster, Bonn a. Rh. Propagation, Mating, 

 and Spawning of Fresh-Water Insects, by Dr. C. Wesenberg-Lund, Hillerod 

 (Denmark). Architecture and Earthquakes, by Prof. Dr. F. Freeh, Breslau. 

 (Pp. 308.) 



