29 JANUARY 1916, page 29

Maxim Gorky's Childhood.* It Is A Very Painful Story That

M. Gorky has to tell. From the first chapter, which describes the death of his father and the break-up of the home, to the last, there is little but a record of suffering,......

Life In A Railway Factory.*

SrscE the material for such a book as Life in a Railway Factory must be largely the product of personal experience, there are only two or three ways in which it can be got......

Problems Of Astronomy.*

MOST readers take a lively interest in the curious intellectual problems so often presented by the study of astronomy. One of these may be summed up in the phrase used by the......