+ – Spec. 96: 874. Je. 2, ’06. 700w.
Iles, George. [Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery.] **$2.50. Doubleday.
The world, too ready to accept the results of the workings of clever minds, here has full opportunity to take a near-by view of the processes which lead to many of the great inventions. Mr. Iles tells of Bessemer’s great triumph in perfecting his process for steel making, tells of the production of dynamite by Nobel, the transmission of speech along a beam of light by Bell, of the incandescent gas mantle by Von Welsbach, of Edison’s electrical achievements, and numerous other scientific achievements. The volume is copiously illustrated.
“One is struck with three qualities not by any means over-common in works of popular science; first, thoroughness and completeness of knowledge; secondly, clearness of exposition and regard for the demands of the nontechnical reader; third, a broad comprehensive view of the relations of science and invention as evolutions of civilization.”
+ + + Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 170w.
In the house of her friends. $1.50. Cooke.
A story by an anonymous writer which “gives us a singularly intimate view of what we think must be a unique element in American college life. It presents the life of the small college from the standpoint, not of the student, nor of the professor, nor of the graduate, nor of the outsider, but of the Faculty family that has lived all its days on the college campus.” (Bookm.) “The plot is simple, the incidents those of the narrow round of life in a small college, the theme the old-fashioned one of love, but the book is saturated with life.” (Outlook.)
“The lover of literature will find pleasure in this leisurely writing, so different from much of our day.” Edward E. Hale, jr.