Earthquakes

Abstract

EPITOMISED and carefully digested accounts of seismological investigations made during the last twenty-five years are few in number. Two have been published in England, a compilation has been “made in Germany.” and now we have a volume from the distinguished geologist, Major C. E. Dutton, of the United States. All told, therefore, we have only four books which give the uninitiated some idea of what the new seismology means and what it has accomplished. About the old seismology, volumes, papers, and particularly sermons exist in thousands. But if we except a few, and amongst the few the works of Mallet stand high above the rest, all they give are reiterated narratives of what people saw and heard, now and then enlivened by some wild hypothesis or pious reflection.

Earthquakes.

By Clarence Edward Dutton, Major, U.S.A. Pp. xxxiii + 314; 63 illustrations. (London: John Murray.) Price 6s. net.