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THIS volume is a republication of a number of sketches on scientific subjects contributed weekly to the journal La Gironde, with a view to keeping the readers of that periodical au courant with the progress of science in its various branches. They are therefore popular, and are made as entertaining as possible. The writer has the gift, so common amongst his countrymen, of rendering the most technical and abstruse subject clear and interesting. The “Causerie” is peculiarly a French device in journalism: hitherto it has been mainly devoted to literature and the drama. M. Vivarez has applied it with much success to science. It would be absurd to speak of this as a work of science, but it certainly is a work in which the latest results of science are explained and illustrated for the million.
Le Mouvement scientifique et industriel en 1885. Causeries scientifiques.
Par Henry Vivarez. (Paris: Librairie Centrale des Sciences, 1886.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 34, 494 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034494d0
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