Pasteur. By Percy Frankland and Mrs. Frankland. (Cassell and Co.)—Although,
from the biographical point of view, Pasteur has been pretty effectually exploited of recent years—it is little more than two years since he died, at the age of seventy- three—this little volume, which belongs to the admirable " Century Science Series," will be found very useful. There is nothing at all sensational about it ; on the contrary, the modesty of its tone is as notable as its lucidity of style. But it tells the ennobling story of Pasteur's noble career as he himself would probably have wished it to be understood. That is to say, each stage in it receives exactly the amount of attention and emphasis that it deserves, and Pasteur's various researches into the silkworm disease, into anthrax, and into rabies, his studies in beer, and his contributions to the spontaneous generation controversy, are dealt with in chronological order. Mr. and Mrs. Frankland write of Pasteur in the spirit of loving admirers, but not of blind hero- worshippers. Their book, which contains portraits of Pasteur at different periods in his life, will be thoroughly approved of by students of human progress, in the large and not too narrowly scientific sense of the phrase.
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