A sequel to the documents appearing in the six volumes of “Letters received by the East India company from its servants in the East.” “International rivalry, oriental politics, the economics of Asia, and the conduct of Europeans under alien conditions, can all be studied to advantage in Mr. Foster’s book. The student of American exploration and history will find much to interest him.... Here he can find further light on the character of Sir Thomas Dale, trace the later voyages of Martin Pring, his successor in command of the East Indian fleet, or learn of the work of William Boffin in the tropics.... Here are made clear both the varied interests and the unity of British expansion in the early seventeenth century.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“These are rich additions to the earlier Calendar of state papers, East Indies, for which the student has long been indebted to Mr. Sainsbury.” Alfred L. P. Dennis.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 879. Jl. ’07. 750w. | |
| Nation. 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 420w. |
Fournier, d’Albe, Edmund Edward. Electron theory: a popular introduction to the new theory of electricity and magnetism; with a preface by G. Johnstone Stoney. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11034.
A book which attempts in an elementary manner the consistent application of the all-embracing electron theory to the whole range of electro-magnetic phenomena. “A plea for the recognition of electricity as a fundamental natural quantity, and the addition of its unit, the electron, to the three fundamental units of length, mass, and time, of which all dimensional formulas are composed.” (Ath.)
“On the whole the book may be heartily commended as a well-executed attempt to grapple with a new and difficult subject.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 585. N. 10. 1590w. |