New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
The Wonders of Nature
Bx Cecil r. Pierson

| What he asks for is an open.minaes ~
titude on the part of laynen nnd Ma
SAME dispassionate treatment of
psychic phenomena as is accorded ~
those OF the so-called physical world
Sir oliver tells Of we'll authent;cataS
cases OF teiepathy and clairvovarce
and indicates how they may perhans hs
explained In terms of some sixth sense
handed down to US from speechless an
cestors. an-
AS an example Lodge tells of two
persons sitting ira room with the I'M
aerstahalng that one of them Is to an
nouAea aloud what he believes ths
other has just been silently tbink;no :,
OF or recalling. In this particular ca 90
the agent, or silent member, though +
or a scene in a story by Strindhs,y
a man and woman in a lighthouse tba
man lying fallen on the floor and M
woman bending over him, lookine ~
him and hoping that he is dead /.
W nat tne other person announced MS
naVlag been projected into his mind
was "a horrid atmosphere, full Of
hae,ea ana discomfort. A book not
real life. A book have not read Mo-
Russian nor Italian, but foreiqn
cannot get it. There 10 q
round tower, man and woman in a
round tower, but it is not Maeterlinc,s
Not like him. | should guess n usas
Strindherg. The woman is henain :.
over the man and hating him, hop;ne
he is dead" op'Hs
The average layman who opens this
book with great temerity, convinced
that he IS about to be met by an ava
lanche of tedious facts, will be apreea-
dfSAnnn(nfpH M fnn
of the bizarre and melodramatic as.
poets of the animal and vegetable
world. He learns how murder Is done
in daylight by quiet woodland streams,
| A fly alights on the Venus fly trap of
the Carolinas. 1t touches one of the
sensitive hairs on the upper surface of
/ the leaf and is crushed so death bv
I the two halves of the blade swapping
| together. Or it is drowned and digest
( ed by the Pitcher Plant. The weird
ways of parasites are dramatically de-
! scribed. The layman probably never
| dreamed of relation between cats.
frlayer and cattle. This book shows
| him how they are linked together.
| Burying- beetles are shown at their
sinister work, If a dead mouse be
placed on the branches of tuft of
thyme these fantastic insects, by dint
4 Of Jerking, shaking and tugging at the
Douyf ouSSSSU III SNUTiCHClHG 1t from
the twigs and bringing it down.
Space Limitations prevent detailed
treatment of "I'he Romance Of Chem
istry," in which are related such i'm
portant matters as the making of ami
line dyes, artificial perfumes and high
explosives, also the marvels of modern
electricity and water power.
Radio fans and amateurs have not
been forgotten, and an outline of the
development of wireless telegraphy and
telephony brought down to date has
been given an entire section to itself
The volume ends with chapter on
flying in which are featured in detail
such matters as the recent remarkable
trans-ocean fights, "aerobatics" and
the future of aviation.
The fine standard set by the first
three volumes of "The Outline of
Science" augurs well for the fourth
volume, which is to appear in few
months. Professor Thomson is to be
complimented on this highly creditable
popular treatise He has taken the sigh
out of science.