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Show - Harper's Book News The Wonders of Life In (licsc diivs of tli (lomiiiiiiico of fiction it is noteworthy to linl n serious book read so widely. Like the "Kiddle of the I'ni-verse." I'ni-verse." wliieh sold hundreds of thousand of copies, this new volume vol-ume ly Ei nst Haeckel is new ni'ousino- the widest comment. i j Professor Haeckel is the last of ihe brilliant coterie of scientists i hat followed Iarwin, and he voices I lu scientific message nf the nineteenth century to Ihe twentieth. The Library World i London) says: "With an elaboration thai commands com-mands our admiration, and with a rhetoric that compels assent, he maps out for us the ti'ld of human knowledge of the' mysteries mys-teries of life." This new volume embodies this eminent scientist's latest investigations, investi-gations, and may be termed a popular study of the mystery of life. |