More Books of the Week (Continued from page_ 373.) -
Did Man and the Himalayas arise simultaneously towa the end. of the Miocene period, over a million years ago -Professor J. Arthur Thomson, in his latest volume, Mod Science (Methuen, Os.), quotes Sir Arthur Smith Woodwa :who tells us that, " as the land rose, the teniperature wotd be lowered, and some of the apes which had previously liv in the warm forest would be trapped to the north of t raised area." Our ancestors, according to this theory would have been forced by the cold to adopt a: terrestria instead of an- arboreal life, and to have grouped themseli into communities in order to withstand their wild-be competitors. Out of society came Man, as Rousseau said - and the tradition of the Vedas, the oldest extant scripture is that here amongst the snows of Himavat is the abode of t gods. But there is Mitch hi Professor Thomson's volt! besides theory : indeed, it is replete with- fascinating fact presented with his usual acuity and common sense. So chapter-headings will indicate-the author's field :---The Mak of the Worlds, the Immensity of the 'UniVeMe, Radian Energies; the Structure of Matter, the Beginnings and t' Basis of- Life, the. March of the SeaSons, the -Everyday Lit of the -Body, Man's Early Inventions, the Mystery of Min
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