Sir Charles Sherin g ton, than whom no one could speak with
greater. authority, says in his introduction to Science for All (Ward, Lock. 6s.) that he feels this book will place our workaday life in a perspective which gives it other and truer values, thereby winging the imagination for immense flights all the more wonderful because their direction is not fancy free, but controlled to follow pathways leading towards goals which hat;e existence in a scheme of things beyond luau's power to construct, though within his power to contemplate, even perhips ultimately to control." The lwok beginS with an excellent limit account of modern astronomy, then physics, geology, botany and zoology are reviewed ; finally we come to a study of the body of man and of man's history. How science is conquering time and space and bring- ing the peoples of the world together is a subject which can never grow stale ; indeed it grows daily in importance. -We wish all that have to do with education would read this book ; the plan is excellent and the execution worthy of the editor and his distinguished -contributors. *
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