+ +Spec. 97: 789. N. 17, ’06. 1210w.

Newcomb, Simon. [Side-lights on astronomy]; and kindred fields of popular science. **$2. Harper.

6–34834.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+Ath. 1906, 2: 834. D. 29. 500w.

“Dr. Newcomb’s clear generalization of the progress of astronomy has great interest and reveals some romance in the work of the ‘far-seekers’ which is lost in the tracing of the details.”

+Ind. 61: 1568. D. 27, ’06. 190w.

“A volume which is at once interesting and instructive.”

+ +Nature. 75: 294. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.

“He is certainly a star of the first magnitude in the astronomical world.”