About 400 pages, with 103 diagrams and 24 plates.
Demy 8vo. Cloth. About 21s. net.
Mr. Spencer Jones, who is the leader of this year's British Eclipse Expedition to Christmas Island, has written a book covering the general aspects of Astronomy. The subject matter is treated from the scientific standpoint in the light of modern theories. At the same time the exposition is not too recondite and is such as to stimulate the general reader who is interested in the study of the Heavens. Whenever possible the argument is simplified by reference to a diagram, and throughout the book mathematics have only been used where essential for the elucidation of any problem.
The book is fully illustrated and has twenty-four magnificent plates depicting comets, nebulæ, planets, etc., being the pick of the observations of the different Observatories.
A NEW MEDLEY OF MEMORIES.
BY THE
RIGHT REV. SIR DAVID HUNTER BLAIR, BT., O.S.B.,
TITULAR ABBOT OF DUNFERMLINE.
With Portrait. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.
It will be remembered that the Author's first "Medley" published in 1919 only brought his reminiscences to the year 1903. He has now continued them for another decade, and the contents of the new volume are as full of variety and anecdote as ever. Many a notable personage figures in these pages; many a good story is told and many interesting fragments of antiquarian and ecclesiastical lore are quoted.