17 APRIL 1915, Page 22

A variety of different scientific studies connected with the earth

are dismissed in non-teohnical language by Professor A. Berget, of the Institut Oct anographique, in The Earth: its Life and Death (G. P. Putnam's Sono, 7s. 6d. net). The book M translated by Mr. E. W. Barlow, and among the subjects dealt with may be mentioned "The Birth of the Earth," "The Force of Gravity," "Sudden Movements of the Crag," and "Old Age and Death of the Earth."