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WE gladly welcome the appearance of such an admirable text-book as the one before us. It embraces the work required for the various elementary examinations in sound, light, and heat, but it is in no sense a cram-book. The subjects are treated experimentally, and the arrangement is apparently that which practical experience in teaching has led the author to believe to be the best. The experiments described are thoroughly practical, but, at the same time, the apparatus required is comparatively simple. The author is of opinion—and we quite agree with him—that a beginner's time is best spent in making himself acquainted with the facts of science; he has accordingly given little space to theoretical considerations, but he has carefully avoided making statements that might lead the student to form notions at variance with the modern theories.
Sound, Light, and Heat.
By Mark R. Wright. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 37, 199 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037199b0
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