Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 43 — page 150: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION NON-FICTION BETWEEN THE TIDES by Philip Street, INSECTS INDOMITABLE by Evelyn Cheesman, PROFILE OF SCIENCE by Ritchie Calder, THE CONQUEST OF FEAR by Harley Williams, FLEMING, DISCOVERER OF PENICILLIN by L. J. Ludovic, THE ALCHEMISTS by F. Sherwood Taylor. The books mentioned above cost, in their original editions, a total of £4 7s. Yet many thousands of people acquired them for a total of only £1 4s. They were members of the Scientific Book Club—which we thoroughly recommend to our readers. Run by Foyles, The Scienti- fic Book Club issues one title a month in its own unabridged edition at 4s., including postage. The monthly selec- tions are chosen from high- quality books which have previously sold at anything from 10s. 6d. to 15s. To be- come a member all you have to do is send a postal order for 4s. (3s. 6d. for the book, 6d. postage) and agree to take at least six books in the future. The books come to you monthly and you send off postal orders in much the same way as you subscribe to Authentic. If you wish to save postage, you can send 24s. for the first six books, or 48s. for the first twelve. This is the way to build up a fine library of good books at low expense. The ad- dress of the Club is 121 Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2. ANIMAL LIFE IN FRESH WATER by Helen Mellanby has just had its fifth edition, at 12s. 6d., from Methuen and Co. Ltd. (36 Essex Street, London, W.C.2). The title is somewhat misleading, because the book deals only with invertebrates, but it does so with great com- petence and interest. Roughly, it isa guide to the backboneless animals of freshwater habitats, with the emphasis on macro- scopic species—those which can only be studied with a 149 comicloooks.conrn