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DISCOVERY 



The Structure of the Atom. By Stephen Miall, B.Sc, 

 LL.D. (Benn Brothers, Ltd., is. (id.) 



An interesting, slight, and in the main an accurate, 

 account of recent work on radio-active changes, isotopes, 

 and the structure of the atom, written by the author, a 

 lawyer, for students of chemistry, in "an easy and not 

 too serious a stvle " free from mathematical formula'. 



Books Received 



(Mention in this column does not preclude a review.) 

 ANTHROPOLOGY 



The Andaman Islanders. A Study in Social Anthropo- 

 logy. By A. R. Brown, M.A. (Cambridge I'niver- 

 sity Press, 40s.) 



The Evolution of Kinship. An African Study. The 

 Frazer Lecture, 1922. By E. Sidney Hartland, 

 LL.D., F.S.A. (Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 2s.) 



The English I'illage. The Origin and Decay of its Com- 

 munity. By Harold Peake, F.S.A. (Benn Bros., 

 Ltd., 15s.) 



MISCELLANEOUS 



7 he World-Story of 3,000,000,000 (?) Years. By J. 



Reeves. With a Foreword by Prof. J. Arthur 



Thomson, M.A., LL.D. (P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 



2S. 6rf.) 

 " Twinline " Tales for Language Learners. The Laurel 



Wreath [Der Lorbeerkranz), by Rudolf Herzog ; 



The Old Guide (Le Vieux Guide), by Jean Rameau ; 



Drama, by Anton Tchehov ; translated word by 



word and edited by E. S. JMole. (The Holerth Press, 



8d. each). 



PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY 



Philosophical Studies. By G. E. Moore, Litt.D. (The 

 International Library of Psychology, Philosophj', 

 and Scientific Method : Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner 

 & Co., Ltd., 15s.) 



The Misuse of Mind. By Karin Stephen. With a 

 Prefatory' Letter by Henri Bergson. (The Inter- 

 national Library of Psychology, Philosophy, and 

 Scientific Method : Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner 

 & Co., Ltd., 65. 6d.) 



SCIENCE 



Sidelights on Relativity. By Albert Einstein. (Methuen 



& Co., 3s. 6d.) 

 A translation of two lectures of a semi-popular character 

 entitled Ether and the Theory of Relativity, and 

 Geometry and Experience. 

 Alternating Current Electrical Engineering. By Philip 



Kemp, M.Sc.Tech., M.I.E.E. (Macmillan & Co., 



17s.) 



Practical Plant Biology. By H. H. Dixon, Sc.D., F.R.SI 



(Longmans, Green & Co., 6s.) 

 The Analysis of N on-Ferrous Alloys. By F. Ibbotson, 



D.Met., F.I.C., and L. Aitchison, D.Met., A.I.C. 



Second Edition. (Longmans, Green & Co., 12s. ()d.) 

 A new edition of a standard work on this subject. 

 The Evolution of Continuity. By David Russell, M.D. 



(George Allen & Unwin, i6s.) 

 The Population Problem. A Study in Human Evolution. 



By A. M. Carr- Saunders. (Oxford : Clarendon 



Press, 21s.) 

 Electricity. (Science in the Service of Man.) By Sydney" 



G. Starling, A.R.C.Sc, B.Sc. (Longmans, Green & 



Co., los. 6rf.) 

 Metallography. By C. H. Desch, D.Sc, Ph.D. Third 



Edition. (Longmans, Green & Co., i6s.) 

 A new edition of the standard work on metallography 

 by the Head of the Faculty of Metallurgy in the L^ni versify 

 of Sheffield, embodying the i mportant work on the 

 physical properties of alloys, on corrosion, and on the 

 metallography of iron and steel done since 1913, the date- 

 of the last edition. 

 Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and 



Waxes. By Dr. J. Lewkowitsch, M.A., F.I.C. 



Revised by George H. Warburton. Sixth Edition. 



Vol. II. (Macmillan & Co., 42s.) 

 The second volume of the new edition of Lewkowitsch's 

 monumental work, dealing with the technology of the 

 natural oils, fats, and waxes with respect to their prepara- 

 tion, refining, and examination for adulteration. 



The Mineral Resources of Burma. By N. M. Penzer, 

 M..\., etc. With an Introduction by Colonel O. C> 

 Armstrong, D.S.O. (George Routledge & Sons, 

 Ltd.) 



The New Heavens. By G. E. Hale, Director of the 

 Mount Wilson Observatory. (Charles Scribner's 

 Sons, 7s. 6rf.) 



The Biology of the Sea-shore. By F. W. Flattely and 

 C. L. Walton, M.Sc. With an Introduction by 

 Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., LL.D. (Sidgwick 

 & Jackson, Ltd., i5s.) 



Bibliographic des Series Trigonometriques. Par Maurice 

 Lecat. (Chez TAuteur: Louvain, Avenue des 

 Allies, 92 ; Bruxelles, Avenue Bois Cambre, 16.) 



Food Values. What they are, and how to calculate them. 

 By Margaret McKillop, M.A., M.B.E. Second 

 Edition, revised and enlarged. (George Routledge 

 & Sons, Ltd., 3s. bd.) 



An Elementary Textbook of Coal Mining. By Robert 

 Peel, Revised and enlarged by Daniel Burns, 

 M.Inst.M.E. Twentieth Edition. (Blackie & Son, 

 Ltd., 6s.) 



The Drought of 1921. By C. E. P. Brooks, M.Sc, and 

 J. Glasspoole, B.Sc, A.I.C. (Meteorological Office). 

 (Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Royal 

 Meteorological Society, \ol. xlviii. No. 202, April 1922.) 



The A B C of Wireless. A Popular Explanation. By 

 Percy W. Harris. (The Wireless Press, Ltd., bd.), 



