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THE Astronomer Royal has written an extremely readable account of the state of astronomical knowledge, in its broadest outlines, at the present day. This is a book intended for perusal by the general reader, to whom we recommend it with the utmost cordiality and confidence. A work of this kind must avoid the heavy technicalities of modern science if it is to be successful in providing pleasurable instruction and authoritative information to the reader for whom it is designed. The author has steered clear of pitfalls of this nature, and the result is a smoothly-written description of the fruits of astronomical investigations with, here and there, a pleasant excursion into the recent and remote history of the science.
Worlds Without End
By Dr. H. Spencer Jones. Pp. xv + 262 + 32 plates. (London: English Universities Press, Ltd., 1935.) 5s. net.
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Worlds Without End. Nature 137, 45–46 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137045a0
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