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“They vary in merit, but as a whole will not enhance the author’s reputation as a whimsical humorist.”
– Outlook. 83: 43. My. 2, ’06. 30w.
“After Mr. Burgess’s usual manner he mixes a good deal of sense with considerable whimsical nonsense.”
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Burgess, William Watson. Life sentence; or, Duty in dealing with crime. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
The scene of this story is Carson City. In commuting the life sentence of a woman who had murdered a villainous man there is opportunity for the author’s arguments of justification. He would reform the world by preventing instead of punishing crime.
Burke, John Butler. Origin of life: its physical basis and definition. *$3. Stokes.
This bulky volume is based upon the “experiments of J. Butler Burke of Cambridge, England, upon the effect of radium salts upon sterile solutions of bouillon and other organic media. Under the influence of the radiations, small bodies (termed ‘radiobes’) appear in the medium which appear strikingly like micro-organisms in that they grow in size and later exhibit nuclei and then divide. It is held that they are not bacteria nor even protoplasm, but that they are really alive, and represent transitional and evanescent forms of matter and energy lying between the common inorganic types of matter and stable living aggregates.”—Nation.