People laugh at Sir Francis Bacon nowadays because he said: “I take all learning to be my province.” Yet, if anyone has in his library the series of “Outlines” published nowadays—The Outline of ...

THIS work is now complete in four very readable volumes. It consists of thirty-eight profusely illustrated chapters arrayed almost without plan, each of which is a little essay, usually more or less ...

edited by J. Arthur Thomson. Vol. I. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1922. Royal 8vo, xx+296 pp. $3.75. SCIENCE is no more than the accumulation of our verified knowledge of nature, plus properly ...