4 JUNE 1927, Page 17

How pale- in interest do politics or the latest newspaper

sensation seem before the marvellous and useful discoveries that are being made almost daily by• our men of science! There is no thriller of Mr. W. Le Queux's more interesting than Professor Eddington's -Stars and Atoms (Oxford 'University Press. 7s. 6d.). We may read here of pulsating stars and subatomic energies, of the cipher -code of the companion of sinus (more important than any document unearthed in the Bolshevik- archives), or the methods. by- which the story 'of Algol has been discovered:- We' cannot too warmly commend this volume, which it would be flippant to attempt to review in a Paragraph-•- • • - - - • -