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BORN UNDER SATURN: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HAZLITT- Catherine MacDonold Macleon-MacMillan...
This Lake Country episode was typical of William Hazlitt's embittered, upsy-downsy life. Born Under Saturn is the first full-length biography in 20 years of the saturnine, unhappy man who was one of 19th-Century England's most brilliant, irascible and unpopular essayists (Lectures on English Poets, Spirit of the Age). The book is passionately pro-Hazlitt. White-haired, scholarly Catherine MacDonald Maclean (Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years} defends Hazlitt with the slashing vigor of a mother defending a slightly subnormal child...
Gustav Holst: The Planets (Toronto Symphony, Sir Ernest Macmillan conducting; Victor; 8 sides). One of the best 20th-century English orchestral works, abbreviated (Planets Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are missing). Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
Observations through the Harvard telescopes, which are made available to the Open Night audiences, will be particularly interesting this week and next, since the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and also the Moon, are in good position for observing, the Harvard astronomers pointed...
...temperature of Jupiter is about 220° below zero F., and the outer planets-Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto-are even colder, which eliminates them as harborers of life. Moreover the atmospheres of the big planets contain great quantities of ammonia and methane, which are poisonous to earthly organisms. These substances are rich in hydrogen, lightest of gases and hence the most likely to escape from a planet's gravitational pull. The big planets are massive enough still to retain most of their original hydrogen, hence the ammonia and methane. The young earth locked up some useful hydrogen in water...