CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA. VOL. VIII. (W. and R. Chambers. 20s. net
per volume.)—A high-powered tele- scope sees further and in much more detail than a pair of field glasses. Yet there are plenty of occasions when one finds the field glasses of more immediate use than the telescope. So with the Britannica. and Chambers's. For many kinds of work the great Encyclopaedia is an absolute necessity. Yet when one is in a hurry and does not want to know all that is to be said on a subject, but only one or two salient facts, told in a close perspective, one turns to Chambers's. You do not want a complete dissertation of Psychology, but only a few outstanding facts as to new developments. To turn over the pages of Vol. VIII. of Chambers's Encyclopaedia is to realize how completely it performs its functions. There is nothing sketchy, or hurried, or inadequate about the articles—most of which, indeed, are written by eminent experts—but only,a general sense of compressed competence. Taken as a whole, the latest volume fully maintains Chambers's claim to be " A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge."
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