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THE primary aim of this book is to interest young readers in various s.m.o.e and amusing experiments, illustrating some of the chief physical and chemical properties of surrounding objects, and the effects upon them of light and heat. In the present edition the author has made no change which is likely to interfere with this object, but he has added various scientific appendices, and an excellent chapter on the systematic order in which class experiments should be carried out for educational purposes. These additions will be of great service to all who may wish to use the volume not merely as a “play-book,” but as an instrument for the training of the mental laculties. Any one who may still have doubts regarding the value of elementary science as an organ of education, will speedily have his doubts dispelled if he takes the trouble to understand the methods recommended by Dr. Alder Wright. The majority of the experiments he has selected must not, of course, be studied merely in his exposition. It is intended that each reader shall make them himself. If that is done, they cannot fail to quicken the intelligence even of “the average boy.”
The Threshold of Science.
By C. R. Alder Wright Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., 1892.)
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The Threshold of Science. Nature 46, 173 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046173a0
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