"In twenty-nine fascinating, well-printed, and well-ill.u.s.trated chapters, Prof. Scott Elliot describes a few of the wonders of plant life. A very charming and interesting volume."--_Daily Telegraph._

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THE ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE

DESCRIBING THE CURIOUS & INTERESTING IN THE INSECT WORLD

By EDMUND SELOUS

AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF THE ANIMAL WORLD," ETC.

_With Sixteen Ill.u.s.trations. Extra Crown 8vo, 5s._

"An entertaining volume, one more of a series which seeks with much success to describe the wonders of nature and science in simple, attractive form."--_Graphic._

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"Both interesting and instructive. Such a work as this is genuinely educative. There are numerous ill.u.s.trations."--_Liverpool Courier._

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"Admirably written and handsomely produced. Mr. Selous's volume shows careful research, and the ill.u.s.trations of insects and the results of their powers are well done."--_World._

THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MECHANISM

INTERESTING DESCRIPTIONS IN NON-TECHNICAL LANGUAGE OF WONDERFUL MACHINERY, MECHANICAL DEVICES, & MARVELLOUSLY DELICATE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

By ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS, B.A. (Oxon.), F.R.G.S.

AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF MODERN EXPLORATION," ETC.

_With Twenty-six Ill.u.s.trations. Extra Crown 8vo. 5s._

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"This book has kept your reviewer awake when he reasonably expected to be otherwise engaged. We do not remember coming across a more fascinating volume, even to a somewhat blase reader whose business it is to read all that comes in his way. The marvels, miracles they should be called, of the modern workshop are here exploited by Mr.

Williams for the benefit of readers who have not the opportunity of seeing these wonders or the necessary mathematical knowledge to understand a scientific treatise on their working. Only the simplest language is used and every effort is made, by ill.u.s.tration or by a.n.a.logy, to make sufficiently clear to the non-scientific reader how the particular bit of machinery works and what its work really is.

Delicate instruments, calculating machines, workshop machinery, portable tools, the pedrail, motors ash.o.r.e and afloat, fire engines, automatic machines, sculpturing machines--these are a few of the chapters which crowd this splendid volume."--_Educational News._

"It is difficult to make descriptions of machinery and mechanism interesting, but Mr. Williams has the enviable knack of doing so, and it is hardly possible to open this book at any page without turning up something which you feel you must read; and then you cannot stop till you come to the end of the chapter."--_Electricity._

"This book is full of interest and instruction, and is a welcome addition to Messrs. Seeley and Company's Romance Series."--_Leeds Mercury._

"A book of absorbing interest for the boy with a mechanical turn, and indeed for the general reader."--_Educational Times._

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