The Story of the Earth's AtmosphereD. Appleton, 1897 - Počet stran: 194 |
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Strana 193 - While constantly occupied upon the anatomical and osseous phases of his subject, he was none the less well acquainted with what literature and history had to say concerning the pygmies. . . . This book ought to be in every divinity school in which man as well as God is studied, and from which missionaries go out to convert the human being of reality and not the man of rhetoric and text-books.
Strana 106 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Strana 193 - SHARE IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE* By OTIS TUFTON MASON, AM, Curator of the Department of Ethnology in the United States National Museum. With numerous Illustrations. I2mo. Cloth, $1.75. " A most interesting resume" of the revelations which science has made concerning the habits of human beings in primitive times, and especially as to the place, the duties, and the customs of women.
Strana 191 - Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $2.50. "The study of spectrum analysis is one fraught with a peculiar fascination, and some of the author's experiments are exceedingly picturesque in their results. They are so lucidly described, too, that the reader keeps on, from page to page, never flagging in interest in the matter before him, nor putting down the book until the last page is reached."— Jfew York Evening Express.
Strana 190 - The glimpses he allows to be seen of far-stretching vistas opening out on every side of his modest course of observation help to fix the attention of the negligent, and lighten the toil of the painstaking student. . . . Mr. Serviss writes with freshness and vivacity.