The Romance of Modern Chemistry

THI? ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE DESCRIBING THE CURIOUS INTERESTING IW THE INSECT WOHLD By EDMUND SELOUS AUTHOR OF “THB ROMANCH OT THH AXIMAL WOBLD,” BTC. With Sixteen Illustrations. Extra Crown 8vo. 5s. "An entertaining volume, one more of a series which seeks with much success to describe the wonders of nature and science in simple, attractive form.”—Graphic. “Offers most interesting descriptions of the strange and curious inhabitants of the insect world, sure to excite inquiry and to foster observation. There are ants white and yellow, locusts and cicadas, bees and butterflies, spiders and beetles, scorpions and cockroaches—and especially ants-with a really scientific investigation of their wonderful habits not in dry detail, but in free and charming exposition and narrative. An admirable book to put in the hands of a boy or girl with a turn for natural science —and whether or not.'—Educational Timet. “Both interesting and instructive. Such a work as thia is genuinely educative. There are numerous illustrations.”—Liverpool Courier. “ With beautiful original drawings by Carton Moore Park and Lancelot Speed, and effectively bound in dark blue cloth, blazoned with scarlet and gold.”—Lady. “ Admirably written and handsomely produced. Mr. Selous's volume shows careful research, and the illustrations of insects and the results of their powers are well done.”—World. THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MECHANISM INTERESTING DESCRIPTIONS IN NON-TECHNICAI. LANGUAGE OF WONDERFUL MACHINERY, MECHANICAL DEVICES, &• MARVELLOUSLY DELICA1E SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS By ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS, B.A., F.R.G.S. AUTHOR OF “THE ROMANCB OF MODERN BXPLOBATION,” ETC. With Twenty-six Illustrations. Extra Crown 8vo. Ss. “No boy will be able to resist the delights of this book, full to the brim of instruc- tive and wonderful matter.’’—British Weekly. “This book has kept your reviewer awako when he reasonably expected to be other- wise engaged. We do not remember coming across a moro fascinating volume, even to a somewhat blasé reader whose business it is to read all that cornea in his way. Jha marvels, miracles they should be called, of the modern workshop are here exploited by Mr Williams for thø benefit of readers who have not the opportunity of seeing these wonders or the necessary mathematical knowledge to understand a scientific treatise on their working. Only the simplest language is used and every eliort is made, by illustration or by analogy, to make sufficiently clear to the non-scientiflc reader how the particular bit of machinery works and what its work really is. Delicate instru- ments, calculating machines, workshop machinery, portable tools, the pearail, motors ashore and afloat, fire engines, automatic machines, sculpturing machines—these are a few of the chapters which crowd thia splendid volume.”—Educational Newt. “ It is difficult to make descriptions of machinery and mechanism interesting, but Mr Williams has the enviable knack of doing so, and it is hardly possible to open this book at any page without turning up something which you feel you must read ; and then you cannot stop till you conio to thø ond ot thø chapter. Electricity. “ This book is full of interest and instruction, and is a welcome addition to Messrs. Seeley and Company's Romance Series.”—Lewis Mercury. “A book of absorbing interest for the boy with a mechanical turn, and indeed for the general reader.”—Educational Times. “An instructive and well-written volume.’’—Hobbies. SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED