2 Edward Arnold dh Co.*s Autumn Announcements, 



draws interesting pictures of Court ceremonial and social functions 

 in pre-war days. Nor is sport forgotten, nor the humorous side of 

 Irish life, which suggests a fund of entertaining anecdotes and stories. 

 It is interesting to know that though Sir John, an Ulsterman, lived 

 in Southern Ireland for more than forty years and in the execution 

 of his duty was often obHged to do unpopular things, he can write 

 that " neither I nor any member of my family had to complain of 

 an unkind deed, or even word.'* 



LIFE OF JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT, 

 THIRD BARON RAYLEIGH, O.M. 



Sometime President of the Royal Society and Chancellor of 

 the University of Cambridge. 



By his Son, ROBERT JOHN STRUTT, FOURTH BARON 

 RAYLEIGH, F.R.S. 



Late Fellow op Trinity College, Cambridgb. 



One Volume. Demy Svo. With Portraits. 25s. net. 



In writing this book, Lord Rayleigh's aim has been not so much 

 to give an account of his father's scientific work as to depict him 

 as a man. The narrative would, however, be without substance 

 if his scientific career was not made its guiding thread. In the 

 selection of topics, it was clearly impossible to refer to more than a 

 small fraction of the papers in the six large volumes of his col- 

 lected writings. The topics have been chosen for their comparative 

 simplicity and for their bearing on the external circumstances of 

 his life. Many investigations of epoch-making importance have 

 necessarily been left unnoticed. But it is hoped that some others 

 have been brought within the reach of readers who would be 

 repelled by the severely technical form of the original accoimt. 



Lord Rayleigh's friends included the most eminent men of his 

 day in the spheres that appealed to him : among those who figure 

 in these pages are Dr. Routh, Charles Darwin, Clerk Maxwell, Mr. 

 Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, Lord BaKour, Lord Kelvin, Mrs. Sidg-| 

 wick, Joseph Chamberlain, Sir J. J. Thomson, Sir J. Larmor andj 

 many others. In his later years Lord Rayleigh amused himself b] 

 making a collection of humorous stories and anecdotes, and though] 

 some of them may be famifiar, it has been thought worth whilt 

 reprinting the collection in an Appendix, 



