Abstract
THIS book belongs to the peculiar class intermediate between the popular work on astronomy on one hand and the serious technical treatise on the other. The scope of the class is otherwise not easily defined in precise terms. Sir Robert Ball, who made a distinctly elegant contribution to it, confessed that the effort had caused him great and apparently unexpected difficulty. Simon Newcomb, whose work on the popular side had been as conspicuously successful as his labours in mathematical astronomy were of the most distinguished, once ventured into a similar field belonging to neither. In acknowledging frankly an error brought to his notice he showed him-self-conseious of a pitfall to which the expert is liable in the attempt to make a statement adapted to the intelligence of readers less gifted than his usua1 audience. Elementary Mathematical Astronomy By C. W. C. Barlow Dr. G. H. Bryan. Fifth edition, revised by Sir Harold Spencer Jones. Pp. viii + 388. (London: University Tutorial Press, Ltd., 1944.) 12s. 6d.
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