7 JULY 1906, page 31

C Urrent Lite Rat Ijr,e.

SCIENCE IN NUBIBITS. Cloud Studies. By Arthur W. Clayden. (J. Murray. 12s. net.) —Coleridge in a famous sonnet remarks on the pleasures of the amateur meteorologist, who can......

Hebrew Astronomy.

Astronomy in the Old Testament. By G. Schiaparelli. (Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—Students of the Bible as well as astronomers will alike be grateful to the famous Director of......

Richard Baldock : An Account Of Some Episodes In His

Childhood, Youth, and Early Manhood, and of the Advice that was Freely Offered him. By Archibald Marshall. (Alston Rivers. 6s.) — While Richard Baldock is certainly an......

The Platonic Conception Of Immortality. By R. K. Gaye, M.a.

(Cambridge University Press. 5s. net.)—After a brief statement of the pre-Platonic ideas of life after death (reaching their highest level in Pinder, not to speak of the......

The Compromise. By Dorothea Gerard (madame Longard De...

and Co. 6s.)—This book contains an initial fault of construction. John Macdonald, the youth who is the central figure of the first five chapters, turns out not to be the hero of......

The Triumphs Of Eugene Valmont. By Robert Barr. (hurst And

Blackett. 6s.)—Mr. Robert Barr is extremely fond of the detective story, and contrives to impart a slight element of novelty to the present series of adventures by making his......

Lady Betty Across The Water. By C. N. And A.

M. Williamson. (Methuen and Co. as.)- . –These authors always take Baedeker as a model when they are writing fiction. That is to say, their only idea of a story is to rush their......