Plympton, Almira George. Old home day at Hazeltown. $1.25. Little.
The trials of Roxy, a brave hearted little maid, and her grandmother who are looked upon as encumbrances in a cross daughter-in-law’s household furnish the first part of this story. The second part tells how Roxy’s long absent father returns during “old home day,” buys grandmother’s old estate, and heaps coals of fire upon the head of the relative who had grudgingly housed the two.
+ R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.
Pocock, Roger. [Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert.] †$1.50. Little.
“The fact that the story is told in a vivid and spirited manner and that it is crowded with exciting and melodramatic incidents only makes its potential influence for harm all the greater.”
– + Arena. 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 280w.
Poincare (Jules) Henri. Science and hypothesis: with a preface by J. Larmor. *$1.50. Science press.
“Professor Poincaré is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of our day.... And withal, being a Frenchman, he is able to write in a vivacious style.... The secrets of the trade of the man of science have never before been exposed so frankly. He shows how the progress of science has been at times impeded by too much knowledge.... A false hypothesis is often of more service than a true one, because it leads to new discoveries.... And Professor Poincaré’s main object is to show how hypotheses are useful and why they are justifiably held to have more value and precision than the experiments which served to demonstrate them.”—Ind.