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PROF. OSTWALD has only just attained his fiftieth year, and in appearance he is full of life and vigour. He has done and is doing a great work in science; he is a man one may delight to honour, both for his intellect and for his heart. It may be merely the prejudice of the reticent Englishman, but I must confess to a feeling that these biographies of eminent men in the prime of life must be very uncomfortable to their subjects, and a doubtful kindness. If they are to become common, mediocrity will find a new consolation.
Wilhelm Ostwald.
By P. Walden. Pp. vii + 120. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1904.) Price 4s. net.
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S., A. Wilhelm Ostwald . Nature 70, 422–423 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070422b0
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