3 MAY 1890, Page 24

The Ocean of Air. By Agnes Giberne. (Seeley and Co.)—This

is a book which should please the young people as much as any scientific primer. Miss Giberne knows how to put her facts in an attractive form, and science should be made attractive, if it is to be of any use to boys or girls. It might be argued that, in a volume of this nature, physical laws cannot always be stated with mathematical accuracy. But whatever misleading impressions the youthful mind is likely to receive are quite compensated, we should say, by the creation of a real love of the subject. The letterpress and the beautiful illustrations of The Ocean of Air should have little difficulty in attaining this end.