2 Archibald Constable and Company's Publications 



Vol. II. 



POPULAR READINGS IN SCIENCE. By JOHN (TALI,, M.A., LL.B., late Professor of Mathematics and 

 Physics, Canning College, Lucknow, and DAVID ROIJERTSON, M.A., LL.B., B.Sc. With many Diagrams, 

 a Glossary of Technical Terms, and an Index. Cr. 8vo, pp. 468. Price 55. nett. 



The authors lay no cb.ini to originality, but have exercised a judicious choice in the selection of subject matter 



The narrative style which has been adopted by the authors will make the book acceptable to general readers who are anxious 

 to make acquaintance with modern science. .A1' 



It is hardly to be expected that this second volume of " Constable's Oriental Miscellany " will meet with such universal 

 acclamation as the first, volume, which consisted of Herni-r .; Trar.l*. But when rightly considered, it equally shows the 

 thoroughness with which the publishers have thrown themselves into the enterprise. The Academy. 



While the essays are such as would attract and instruct a general reader, they appear to have been written specially with 



a view to the needs of Indian students approaching the study of science for the first time They are well adapted to 



this end, and cannot fail to create in their readers a desire to push their knowledge further. The Sco! nna>t. 



The new volume of " Constable's Oriental Miscellany " would have delighted Macaulay and the champions of 



"Occidentalism" in Indian education in Lord William Bentinck's day Messrs. Gall and Robertson .... have 



prepared a collection of essays which will be at least as acceptable to the general reader as to the student, in which the results 



of the most modern researches in physical science are brought up to date In each case the subject is treated in a clear 



and interesting way .... it is a most commendable undertaking. The Bombay Gaz-ttc. 



The title sufficiently indicates the lines on which the two collaborators have worked. Theirs is no dry-as-dust text-book ; 



it is rather a collection of scientific facts forming chapters in what has aptly been called the romance of science Messrs. 



Archibald Constable & Co. have a particular interest in this country-, and their Oriental Miscellany is so well edited, printed, 

 and published, that it is easy to predict for it a wide popularity. The Madras Mail. 



The second volume of "Constable's Oriental Miscellany, just published under the above heading, has been designed to 



meet an undoubted want, and will hardly yield in usefulness to any in. the projected series While elementary principles 



are explained with sufficient clearness to enable the work to be used independently of other text-books, the compilers have- 

 devoted much attention and space to many of the results of scientific researches which have mainly distinguished the present 

 century. The Darwinian theory, for instance, is not only admirably summarized in itself, but we are furnished with a useful 

 precis of the arguments pro tt coir, together with an account of the more recent discoveries of paleontologists which have- 

 strengthened the doctrines of the evolution of organic beings, and an outline of the views regarding it of the .ww.'A of all 

 nations. The book is one which should secure a large number of general readers, who will find in it a vast store of useful 

 information placed before them in a peculiarly readable and acceptable form. The Pioneer. 



This is a popular treatise covering a very wide range of subjects. .... A well-written book like a modernized Lardner, 

 or ay? dc siecle edition of the "Scientific Information for the People " of the " Useful Knowledge Series." The Educational 

 Times. 



The authors write about what they know, and they write with clearness and precision, and on the topics which they 



discuss they have spoken with that accuracy which comes from full knowledge The value of the book is enhanced by 



a glossary of technical terms, which will be of the utmost possible use to the beginner, and also of use to those who are 

 somewhat advanced in their studies. The Aberdeen Daily Free Press. 



