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AT first sight one gains the impression that this is merely a remarkably cheap picture-book, published in time to be handy as a Christmas gift. The forty coloured plates exhibit an Oriental splendour and a daring which does not hesitate to represent the play of colours of labradorite and precious opal, or even the metallic lustre of native gold and silver. These dazzling pictures, prepared under Dr. Hans Lenk, of Erlangen, are themselves worth the price of the book, which, however, is far more than a mere album of German chromo-lithographs. For the editor of The Mineralogical Magazine has written descriptive text around the pictures, and has preceded this by an excellent introduction to the study of minerals, which makes the book something more than a pretty volume for collectors of pretty stones. Thus in only twenty-two pages the author manages to give a clear and wonderfully comprehensive survey of the difficult subject of crystallography, not even omitting to deal with Miller's notation.
The World's Minerals.
By Leonard J. Spencer. Pp. xi + 212 + 40 coloured plates. (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, Ltd., 1911.) Price 5s.
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G., R. The World's Minerals . Nature 88, 242 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088242b0
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