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...Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. For popular consumption they both write with clarity and grace. The Mysterious Universe by Sir James has sold 123,000 copies in Great Britain, 39,000 in the U. S. The Nature of the Physical World by Sir Arthur, a fatter and costlier tome, has sold 20,000 copies in Britain, 33,000 in the U. S. Both books have been translated into a half-dozen languages. Aware that Einstein considers Eddington the foremost exponent of Relativity, many an impartial appraiser is inclined to give Eddington a slight edge over Jeans as a pure...
...roaming along the bookshelves looking for some ancient tome. As he paced down the gallery a queer little man with a roguish permanent grin came to his side, watching him curiously. Professor Lake was about to ask the stranger if he knew the where-abouts of the needed volume, but before he could say anything the gnomic little man caught him by the arm, and, chuckling a typically library-muted chuckle, pulled him for miles along the gallery. After a long walk in silence they came to a large room, set apart from the rest of the great library, which...
...SOFT SPOT-A. S. M. Hutchinson -Little, Brown ($2.50). Twelve years ago the huge success of the novel If Winter Comes caused its shy author, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, to flee precipitately from England to the Balearic Islands. The success of Author Hutchinson's latest tome, The Soft-Spot, a painfully mannered and prolix dissection of an Englishman with a talent for sponging, should cause him no such embarrassment whatever. Stephen Wain developed the habit of living off his half-brother Maxwell, a wealthy explorer, when they shared diggings in Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing...
From England, where antiquarians ponder over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, Heart Burial* a new tome, reached the U. S. last week. The author, Charles Angell Bradford, concerns himself primarily with hearts given special burial in the London district. Besides that, he tries anthropologically to link the faded fad with the canopic burials of viscera in ancient Egypt...
...faculty, Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from Chesapeake Bay. Some 30 Storm King boys followed him to the new school. Headmaster Shortlidge, now 49, found Tome's celebrated neo-Colonial plant wisely financed, well-staffed but half-empty. Built to accommodate 200 students. Tome...