14 AUGUST 1897, Page 26

The Story of the Earth's Atmosphere. By Douglas Archibald. (Newnes

and Co.)—This is one of the useful little volumes of popularised science which we owe to the enterprise of Sir G. Newnes and Co. It is at least as interesting as any, and as full of notable facts, all the more strange, one might say, because they are in a sense familiar.