The Outline of Science, The Outline of Literature, The Outline of Art* he has set out rather definitely to follow Bacon’s mindsteps. The latest addition to this type of library is A Popular ...

IT is perhaps insufficiently recognised that the writing of a good “Outline”, of the kind which the public, or the publishers, seem to go on demanding, is a vastly more difficult task than the ...

“The editors of this Outline try to fill the role of middlemen ... Following this we read of “modern scienceso unlike the dry-as-dust science of old”. “The old astronomy told us about ...