“It is a book which ought to be much more widely read than it is likely to be.”
+ Ind. 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 340w.
“We really cannot recommend this translation. But every one who is interested in these subjects should read M. Poincaré in the original.”
– + Lond. Times. 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’06. 1480w.
“There is certainly no one with the same intimate knowledge of mathematical and physical science who could have written with the same authority and produced a volume in which so much charm and originality are condensed. The wealth of his store of illustration is boundless, and the stringency of his logic leaves us without answer. Even in cases where our instincts rebel, we are carried away by the fascination of the language, which in each subdivision of the subject takes us with dramatic power to its artistic dénouement. The English translation errs, perhaps, on the side of following too literally every sentence, and sometimes even every word in the sentence, of the French original.” Arthur Schuster.
+ + – Nature. 73: 313. F. 1, ’06. 2260w.
“Certain defects in his equipment are, however, quite prominent. In the first place, he lacks psychological training. M. Poincaré is handicapped by the lack of a general logical theory upon which to base his special logical investigations. Our author has no general theory of knowledge; and he passes by the most obvious epistemological considerations without so much as a nod of recognition. I fear that the reader has been given but a slight notion of the exceeding interest and suggestiveness of this work. If there is much that should awaken caution, there is also a fund of wise and penetrating observations. Those who are least attracted by the author’s conclusions may well be repaid for the reading by the impressive survey which he gives of the present state of mathematical and physical science.” Theodore de Laguna.
+ – Philos. R. 15: 634. N. ’06. 3380w.
Pollard, Albert Frederick. [Henry VIII.] *$2.60. Longmans.
The magnificent Goupil-Scribner edition of 1902 makes its re-appearance in a modest two-volume reprint shorn of its glory and portraits save for the frontispiece, Holbein’s chalk drawing of King Henry.