'Three young women in the middle twenties and three bachelors of fifty' decide to marry—the actress and the painter do it at once and are happy—the other girls insist on a six months' wait. Within a few days of their engagements they fall in love with two naval emeers of thirty. The middle-aged swains deserve it, for on almost every page thes: apologize for their age—although the young women are equally tedious in their dissection fof their own feelings. 'The title of Paul Trent's book, "The Lost Generation' (Ward Lock, London. 3/6) refers to the million or so men killed in the Great War from whom, according t0 the author, the young women of today should have chosen their mates, fand in default of whom they must call back on the middle-aged. "Simple arithmetic will prove that things are not really as bad as the author thinks and he should pay special attention to subtraction, for although his heroes did serve in the Great War they wer twenty years ago, too old for the front me. But still, an agreeable book.
A girl on the death of her father finds that all that is left "of his riches is £1,000, Determined to con-coal her poverty from her friends she lays out most of her capital on good-looking flat, approaches an for M, Se and Ph, D. and the team spirit and broad outlook necessary [t2 make progress in agricultural Aiscoveries, The novel suggestion that theses for research degrees in. agriculture should be of joint authorship is seriously made and well argued, Tu article for. the advanced organic chemist, Doctors Cox and Wardlaw deal. with the probable formulae for ce-ordination compounds, basing their suggestions on a modified form of the 40 year old theory of Werner.
Moscow Enthusiasm a very entertaining article, G. 'W. Tyrrell deals with the proceedings. of the 17th International Geological [Congress held in Moscow last year. Vehement applause greeted" the [Soviet delegation's giving of the fered it for their jfeological successes "comrade Stalin," A crowd of ress men, cameras, are and. spot lights surrounded the author deliver ing a paper on Igneous Activity Relation to Tectonics, However, great praise is given for the arrangements for translation, and. the excursions, and thanks are'rendered for the warm hospitality received, The progress of geology in the USSR. has been phenomenal, for whereas in 1918 only 10 per cent." of the country was geologically known, now the whole country has been" mapped "by Jarmy of 6,000 specialists under a [Central Institute, liberally supplied {with funds by the Soviet government.
Recent advances in mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, Reology, botany, entomology and archaeology are discussed by experts in each branch, Notes general interest to scientists are allowed by essay reviews on Pascal Jand the Great Joe Age, Finally a [very comprehensive selection of some 160 books is reviewed, completing a most interesting number of thir quarterly review of scientific thought, work and affairs.—R, editor who had in the old days proposed to her, and breaks into Fleet Street, making her name as a so. ciety column" writer. Sent into the country to find out the reason why '2 welicknown writer has become a hermit, she fails at frst to. get into his house, but, breaks her ankle and carried in by him. The end can bbe guessed, but though "Anne Adven~ tures" (Ward Lock, London. 3/6) hag a simple plot Valentine's pleasant style makes the book: easy rending.
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