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...Annie Jump Cannon's care. Harvard astronomers began taking occasional pictures in 1850. Every clear night for the past 40 years they have been adding to the collection until now it is a permanent record of things understood or obscure beyond the night. It is a towering compendium of dots and streaks in photographic gelatine which, to the theoretical physicist, suggest the whence and the whither of all things. By means of the Harvard plates three-fourths of all known variable stars have been discovered, the majority of new stars recognized, the spectra of a million stars recorded...
...Grieve, has made herself her country's great grower of herbs and other simples. Another woman, Mrs. Carl Frederick Leyel, has made herself Britain's greatest advocate of herbal medicine. Last week the two published the U. S. edition of their two-volume Modern Herbal* It is compendium of their joint knowledge "the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs trees with all their modern scientific uses." It purports to be the first comprehensive medicinal herbal since the time of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), Stuart sir and astrologer. It may bother...
Despite the historical intent of the book, there is in it of necessity a great deal of criticism, although, to be sure, most of it is not Professor Hughes'. Therein, I think, lies the fault of the book. It is too much a compendium of information to be valued for any other qualities. It might almost be called a "Guide to future works on Imagism," so thoroughgoing is its historical organization...
...leading specialists in cancer pathology, biology, surgery, X-ray therapy, radium therapy. They wrote in tribute to a great teacher, Professor James Ewing of Cornell Medical School, Manhattan, the man who spent ten years writing Neoplastic Diseases, prime textbook on Cancer. What the 54 authorities wrote comprises a compendium of all current knowledge of Cancer, its causes, treatment, prevention. Because Professor Ewing has always taught that the specialists must depend on the family doctor to discover early signs of cancer, this issue of the Annals of Surgery will be republished at the end of this month as a book, Cancer...
Huysmans claimed that what man wanted was faith; Gissing believed in purity, and Lawrence in a supreme intimacy. "What Men Want", the other theatre offering, is a superb compendium on the whole question. Disguise it, as the producer attempts to do, with the facial expressions of the sophisticated and the dialogue of a gangster melodrama, embarrass it with one long and gay party after another, what men want is still "It", is the humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback...