Abstract
“OF making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Truer words than these were never written, and they are specially applicable at the present day. Mr. Wright's addition to the literature of science is avowedly “written specially to meet the requirements of the Advanced Stage of Heat as laid down in the Syllabus of the Directory of the Science and Art Department.” To say that the author has satisfactorily accomplished his design is, therefore, to give him praise. In an examinational text-book there is little, if any, scope for originality, and all the author can do is to develop new methods of treatment. This Mr. Wright has done to a small extent, and he seems to be in touch with the work that has been done in connection with his subject during the last few years. Of the 136 illustrations only thirty-five have been drawn for the book: the majority of the others being of the well-known stock character, which have “had their day” and should have “ceased to be” long ago.
Heat.
By Mark R. Wright. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.)
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Heat. Nature 48, 315 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048315a0
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