Biographical Fragments

Abstract

THE world of 1851, the birth year of Arthur Schuster, differed almost toto caelo from the age which has witnessed the publication of these biographical fragments. Posting as a means of travel was not altogether a thing of the past; the electric telegraph was still a novelty; the telephone had not yet appeared upon the scene. In the England of that era, shopkeepers in the capital still lived over their shops; merchants drove into the city in horse-drawn carriages, or rode in on horseback; for sixteen years to come malefactors were strangled outside Newgate in the presence of roaring crowds.

Biographical Fragments.

By Sir Arthur Schuster. Pp. xiii + 268 + 8 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 10s. 6d. net.