Thomas H. Huxley

Abstract

MR. DAVIS has produced in small compass an account of the life and work of Huxley that is at once readable and stimulating. It was inevitable that he should draw largely upon Mr. Leonard Huxley's biography of his illustrious father, but the materials have been skilfully employed, and the book is far from being a mere abstract of the larger work. Huxley's energy, industry and fixity of purpose are brought into due prominence; while his intellectual keenness and honesty, his intolerance of pretentious ignorance, his appreciation of everything good in art and literature, his jealousy for the right use of the mother tongue, his admirable social and domestic qualities, all have ample justice done to them in the pages of this modest volume.

Thomas H. Huxley.

By J. R. Ainsworth Davis. (English Men of Science Series.) Pp. xi + 288. (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1907.) Price 2s. 6d. net.