[Short Notices]

Abstract

JOHN PERRY was wont to say that Euclid was fit reading only for the very learned. This work of ‘Coulombus' and ‘Decibel’ falls, not necessarily for the same reasons, into the same category. If the man-in-the-moon is very learned he will take no harm from the reading, and may contrive a rare wan smile, but he will learn little or nothing. He will certainly wonder whether life is made notably easier by the simple device of calling an electron a duckling. If, on the other hand, he is the simple soul at or to whom the “wit and humour of the book” (guaranteed by the publishers) are directed, he may be deluded into feeling that he has “unconsciously acquired a real insight into the basic principles and practice of Wireless”.

Wireless for the Man-in-the-Moon: Perhaps a Fairy Tale, Perhaps a Textbook, Perhaps Neither.

By Coulombus Decibel. Pp. 128. (London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1934.) 2s. 6d. net.