“The author evidently enjoyed writing it. But. personally, we prefer the ‘formless infelicity’ of Newman.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 2: 399. S. 23. 410w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 754. S. 28. ‘05. 90w. |
“For the general reader there is enough of warm life in them.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 293. Je. 10. ‘05. 160w. |
“The essays are all eminently readable, and have the appearance of carefully formed judgments.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 262. Ag. 19, ‘05. 280w. |
Williams, Henry Smith, ed. See Historian’s history of the world.
Williams, Henry Smith, and Williams, Edward Huntington. [History of science.] 5v. Harper.
“The plan followed by the editor in chief and his collaborator (Dr. Edward H. Williams) is to give a brief biography of the scientific men to whose labors the world of to-day is indebted, prefacing these biographies by a brief account of the beginnings of science and connecting them by references to the circumstances amid which each investigator worked.... In his second volume Dr. Williams carries on his story through the dark ages, among the Arabians, the most famous investigators of their time, into the western world, giving the biographies and telling of the labors of astronomers, physicists, physicians, down to Franklin and Linnaeus.... In the last three volumes Dr. Williams treats of the development of the physical sciences, of the chemical and biological sciences, and of the present aspects of science.”—N. Y. Times.
“Inevitably, the murmuring shallows of science are more in evidence than its silent deeps; its thaumaturgics than its revelations. All this is somewhat trying to the student. For the student, however, there is already no lack of adequate works in this field; he should be the last to begrudge to the general reader the one book which best meets his demands.” E. T. Brewster.