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IN writing a text-book, an author generally chooses definitely between two methods of exposition: he either writes a small book, and confines his attention to the most elementary parts of the subject treated of; or else he writes a more pretentious work, in which most branches of the subject receive adequate attention.
Light and Sound: a Text-book for Colleges and Technical Schools.
By W. S. Franklin Barry Macnutt. Pp. viii + 344. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.,1909.) Price 5s. net.
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EDSER, E. Light and Sound: a Text-book for Colleges and Technical Schools . Nature 84, 103 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084103a0
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