The sun., 1873-11-25
SOME NEW ROOKs.
Tho Air Arouudus, and Its Laws.

as a "vast ocean of air, at the bottom OF which
we live" is the subject of Il large and handsome
volume, The Atmosphere, translated from he
French of Camille Fdmmdrton dlarper x
Brothersl, in which prodigious body OF infor-
nation has been digested within moderate lin
liz, aud by means Of weil-e secuted chronos and
wood ongrayings, made attractive to the general
reader. IT forms the latest addition to "A series
Of publications which have sprung into exist
ence within the last ten or fifteen years, and of
which the aim seems {, be to awaken popular
interest in the science Of physical geography.
The author, who Is one Of the most successful
and daring of modern French aOronauts, has
had no little practical experience of the subject
ON which lie writes, and is fortunate in obtain
iig for the editor of the English translation u
his worh . accomplished physicist as JAMES
GLAIsHLR, f. II. $, himself the most scientific
atronaut, perhaps, Of his day, and the author n
the hest book on aCrostatcs yet produced. Mr..
Gla-hcr must also possess some skill as con-
dcnaCr. lie las cut down VI. llamuar.on's book
to one-half of it's ORIGINAL dimension, and has
made shoIt work Of the author lne writing,
which, he justly observes, i'll accords with the
precision and accuracy that ought to be q char
actcri-tic Of scientific information. even when
expressed in language free lcom tocnuioalites.'
\ vastcr or more complex subject the writer
On p'yri,. al sc.cuco could scarcely select, and
VI. fhmmaiion has chosen to consicts u from
every conceivable point Of view. and with
wealth uf Illustration which lend. pccial in
t,rcst TO his work "Ihe carths or. r.aniLatlOn
/. Sd, ordered" he -avs that the atmo uhere il
sovereign of All ihnes. and the saygrt can say OF
II as the theulogian said Of God in b We live
and move aud have our being" oar planet re-
yuivine in space may be likened To a cannon ball
launched into the air; ard bv imagining this
cannon TALL surrounded ly a thin ring Of smoke
not more than l-2oO Of AN inch Ia thickness, we
MY f,iu som. idea of tho position of the
si,ro.rh, re- around tine terrestrial gioLc Plants,
animals. and mon derive from it the Rr-t cle-
u..n.. Of their cxistcurc:u II Is the medium #
sound. the channel in which our words r.vcl,
and tho vehicle Of lautua,e. Of ideas. ard Of
social coumuuicatioua The tuhal .tton II IL
i,.,,i.- us vi.h thr.c-pllrtcis of OR nlirieh-
r,.,t. and the particles az air Incorporated IA
,.ror.i,.t.ri after escaping either 10 rers,ir,.-
ttou or iu tL. process az breathing. .rc rcigc.r-
r.tntcd iu s,.l,. utheror!.n.siu either "a plant,
| uiiu.i l. ar man
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ao.t thitty milo. al.e tie surf re + the
,,t,,. but ot i,, extro,ur limit Ill, air uu-t be
o.. ra,ilcd .lcuciil, tie exhausted receiver 4
! an air uu,,r since lrirlit of seven or eight
mu,s ,ulv tte r,rion is reached IN which the
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