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THOSE best know how little they know, who are credited with knowing everything; and it may be that M. Ilin's small guide to general knowledge will serve in lessening to a slight degree the load of ignorance which so many carry.“Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers”, so that even when our learning is the greater, by reason of the assimilated contents of this book, our wisdom may be not one whit increased. Both text and illustrations are likely to appeal most to the immature section of the general public to whom M. Ilin offers his book. The translation merits full praise.
100,000 Whys: a Trip around the Room.
M.
Ilin
By. Translated by Beatrice Kinkead. Pp. 138. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1933.) 3s. 6d. net.
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100,000 Whys: a Trip around the Room . Nature 133, 9 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133009e0
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