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IN designing the plan of this book the author seems to have thought of the nursery expedient of administering a medicinal powder in a spoonful of jam. His object appears to be to explain to children the formation and uses of the forms of water, but, having doubts of the intrinsic interest of the subject for his readers, he creates characters like Aunt Cold, Aunt Heat, Colonel Lightning, Sergeant Thunder, and Rain-children to describe to a little heroine he has created how natural phenomena can be explained. The result is a tale which little girls may like, but we believe boys usually prefer to keep their lessons and stories for separate occasions.
The Rain-children. A Fairy-tale in Physics.
By T. H. Orpen. With seven illustrations by C. E. Brock. Pp. vi + 112. (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d.) Price 2s. 6d.
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The Rain-children A Fairy-tale in Physics . Nature 98, 327 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098327b0
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