Phillpotts, Eden. Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A striking example of fine character-drawing revealed through a highly trying medium.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 34. Ja. ’06. 240w.
Phin, John. [Seven follies of science: a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them], to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.
The seven follies discussed are squaring the circle, the duplication of the cube, the trisection of an angle, perpetual motion, the transmutation of metals—alchemy, the fixation of mercury, the universal medicine and the elixir of life.
+ Engin. N. 55: 677. Je. 14, ’06. 220w. Ind. 60: 988. Ap. 26, ’06. 120w.
“He writes for the man in the street, and we can give no higher praise than to say that the man in the street will understand him.” J. P.
+ + Nature. 75: 25. N. 8, ’06. 1110w. Outlook. 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.
“An absorbingly interesting discussion of a subject of no particular value.”