Heilprin, Angelo. Tower of Pelee. [**]$3. Lippincott.
Professor Heilprin, of the Yale scientific school, and author of “Mont Pelée and the tragedy of Martinique,” was in Martinique at the time of the great eruption in the summer of 1902 and has visited the islands twice since that time, ascending Pelee many times. This volume is an illustrated study of the great West Indian volcano, and the strange tower of lava which rose so mysteriously from the crater’s mouth, and crumbled away in constantly falling fragments. He also gives the after-history of the tower and explanations of the phenomena.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ways of volcanoes. The book is written with more care than preceding volumes from the same hand.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
“It is in the wide and sympathetic interest stirred by the tragic fate of St. Pierre that Professor Heilprin’s volume finds its justification. Author is a man of versatile scientific attainment, a general naturalist and geographer rather than a geologist or volcanologist, and with the journalist’s eye for the effective (albeit not always essential or accurate) details. A tendency to introduce irrelevant matter. In giving the results of Prof. Moissan’s analysis of fumerole gases from St. Pierre, the author curiously omits nitrogen which formed 55 per cent of the whole.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 137. F. 16, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of contents.) |
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| Outlook. 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
“His study is both scientific and popular.”
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