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CONTENTS
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY pages 1 to 8
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION pages 8 to 9
POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY & ECONOMICS pages 10 to 13
BELLES LETTRES pages 14 to 16
POETRY AND DRAMA page 17
MISCELLANEOUS page 18
FICTION pages 19 to 21
NEW EDITIONS AND IMPRESSIONS pages 22 to 27
Life and Letters of Silvanus Phillips Thompson, F.R.S. By JANE S. THOMPSON and HELEN G. THOMPSON. Illustrated. Demy 8vo, cloth. (Spring, 1920).
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This is a straightforward and somewhat intimate account of the career of a man of great and varied gifts. Born into the family of a simple Quaker schoolmaster of York his extraordinary energy and devotion to science carried him into the foremost ranks of physicists, an acknowledged leader in electro-technology and optics. Both as popular lecturer and as trainer of technical college students his skill was unrivalled, and wheresoever he went his enthusiasm for men and things won him friendships, alike in his own country and abroad. Many of the letters describe experiences on his journeys, others adventures of the antiquarian in the pursuit of sixteenth and seventeenth century scientific literature, and yet others tell of battles for truth in some field or other.
The book contains appreciations of his works as original investigator, teacher, writer, artist, and "prophet," and indirectly testifies to the warmth of personal regard which the frank geniality of his nature won for him in many spheres.