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Poincare or of Arrhenius of the growth 

 of new celestial bodies in the Milky Way. 

 What an insight into primitive man and 

 the beginnings of civilization ! He might 

 have been a contemporary and friend, and 

 doubtless was a tutor, of Tylor. Book II, 

 a manual of atomic physics with its mar- 

 vellous conception of 



"... the flaring atom streams 

 And torrents of her myriad universe," 



can only be read appreciatively by pupils 

 of Roentgen or of J. J. Thomson. The 

 ring theory of magnetism advanced in Book 

 VI has been reproduced of late by Parsons, 

 whose magnetons rotating as rings at 

 high speed have the form and effect with 

 which this disciple of Democritus clothes 

 his magnetic physics. 



And may I here enter a protest? Of love- 

 philtres that produce insanity we may read 

 the truth in a chapter of that most pleasant 

 manual of erotology, the "Anatomy of 



