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YOUR reviewer expressed an opinion, and makes two statements, and the six lines comprise his review of my book. The opinion, being on a matter of business, may be right or may be wrong. The statements are supposed to relate to fact; but they must be the outcome of hasty reading, for the “ large portion of the book, dealing with theories of the natural colours of bodies,” cannot surely be spoken of as “padding” in a work whose sub-title is “The Chemistry of Colour,” and one of whose objects is to show that the Röntgen rays and matter yield “invisible” colour which conforms to the same laws as “visible” colour. Nor do I think it correct to call information on the X-rays “sketchy” because it happens to be concise.
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ACKROYD, W. “The Old Light and the New”. Nature 54, 173 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054173a0
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