+ N Y Times p9 D 12 ’20 80w + Outlook 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
LANKESTER, SIR EDWIN RAY. Secrets of earth and sea. il *$3.50 Macmillan 504
“These popularly written chapters on a wide variety of scientific and anthropological topics, such as What is meant by a species? Species in the making; The biggest beast; The earliest picture in the world; The art of pre-historic men; The swastika; etc., form a sequel to the same author’s ‘Science from an easy chair’ and ‘Diversions of a naturalist,’ and like them is mainly a reprint, with considerable additions, of articles published in daily or weekly papers.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup S 23 ’20
Booklist 17:144 Ja ’21
“The essays are entertaining but have no high literary qualities. Men like Shaler, Burroughs, Muir, Mills, and Slosson have done this sort of book far better in America.”
− + N Y Evening Post p12 N 27 ’29 140w + N Y Times p6 Ja 2 ’21 3100w
“Let it be said at once that ‘Secrets of earth and sea,’ though extremely interesting, is not in the best sense as diverting as was ‘Science from an easy-chair.’ The subjects treated are delightfully interesting to the layman but the style is unfortunately rather redundant and heavy.”
+ − Spec 125:861 D 25 ’20 190w
“The book is indicative of what will be common in that happy day when science will be written about as fully and as charmingly as purely literary subjects are today.”