“Although this book is less comprehensive, as far as the general treatment of radioactive phenomena is concerned, than his previous work on ‘Radioactivity,’ it is divested of most of the technical terms which baffle the general reader, and is, in consequence, a book for both the student and the intelligent layman.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 71. Mr. ’07. |
“We have the less compunction in thus drawing attention to these blemishes in what we believe to be a very valuable book that they are all such as may be easily removed either in the next edition or in the next public pronouncement Prof. Rutherford may make on the subject.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 18. Ja. 5. 2190w. | |
| + + + | Nation. 84: 68. Ja. 17, ’07. 940w. |
“The only doubt which can be felt is whether it meets any want which was not already satisfied by his previous work, ‘Radio-activity.’” R. J. Strutt.
| + + − | Nature. 75: 195. D. 27, ’06. 780w. |
“Whilst his writings are always authoritative, and therefore welcome to the student, they have been divested in this volume of most of the technical and mathematical subtleties which necessarily repel the general reader in such a book as that of Professor Thomson, and there is hardly a page which cannot be understood by the intelligent layman.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 820w. |
* Ruville, Albert von. William Pitt: earl of Chatham. 3v. *$9. Putnam.