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12 s. vii. DEC. is, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES.


'WEIGHTY OPINIONS'


"Like all the work of this master of prose description, the book is entrancingly written and forms a happy blend of science and metaphysics," says Prof. Benjamin Moore in The Observer of THE SYSTEM OF ANIMATE NATURE, by Prof. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, just issued. Price 30s. net.


" This biography must be regarded as the standard life. . . , We have nothing but praise for the book," is what a reviewer in the Baptist Times says of C. H. SPURGEON, by Rev. W. Y. FULLERTON which has just been published. Illustrated. Price 15s. net.


" Probably the most interesting plain account of the human body that has ever been written " is Prof. J. Arthur Thomson's opinion in The Observer of THE ENGINES OF THE HUMAN BODY, by Prof. ARTHUR KEITH. Illustrated. Price 12s. Qd. net.

" In it they will find something greater and more vital than theological and philosophical definitions," is what a reviewer in The Dundee Advertiser says of FROM AUTHORITY TO FREEDOM, by L. P. JACKS, editor of The Hibbert Journal. Price 12s. Qd. net. *

" I have seldom gained a more living picture of personalities of the past than in this little book," says a reviewer in The Westminster Gazette of AN IRISH PEER ON THE CONTINENT (1801-1803), by CATHERINE WILMOT. Price 10s. Qd. net.

" If the state of things I have forseen is Hell, then we have earned Hell .... but is it Hell? That depends on ourselves," says WALTER RATHENAU in THE NEW SOCIETY. Ready this week. Price 6s. net.


" Of all the books called forth by the Mayflower Celebrations this is so far easily the most important " is what The Manchester Guardian reviewer says of JOHN ROBINSON : THE PASTOR OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by WALTER H. BURGESS. Illustrated. Price 12s. Qd. net.


The above books are published by

WILLIAMS & NORGATE - London