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THERE is something about the atmosphere of St. Andrews that leads to eloquent speaking and clear writing: Kipling knew this, for in his poem he tells of “The lives that caught fire 'neath her hand”. John Read has caught the infection ; he is always interesting, whether he is enjoining us to keep warm by carrying faggots up and downstairs or discoursing about past worthies across that most famous of all lecture tables at the Royal Institution. This time it is explosives which he seeks to explain to the people ; they have become all too conscious of them through personal experience of the blast waves from big bombs, and may well wish to learn more.
Explosives
By Prof. John Read. (Pelican Books, A. 100.) Pp. 160 + 8 plates. (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1942.) 9d.
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ARMSTRONG, E. EXPLOSIVES. Nature 150, 561 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150561a0
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