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THIS book is a second and enlarged edition, of which we have already noticed the first issue (NATURE, vol. 106, p. 640). The subject is comparatively new, though one variety, the cat's cradle, has a literary pedigree from the eighteenth century, and the boys at Christ's Hospital used to play it in the time of Charles Lamb, as related by that charming writer in his essay on the famous foundation; but the discovery of the more interesting forms dates from the Cambridge expedition to Torres Straits in 1898 under the leadership of Drs. Haddon and Rivers. Since then many interesting figures have been recorded, notably in America, by Mrs. Jayne.
String Figures.
By W. W. Rouse Ball. Second edition. Pp. 69. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1921.) 2S. 6d. net.
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String Figures . Nature 108, 175 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108175b0
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