Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 50 — page 135: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION with a foreword by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, with 34 plates, many of them beautiful “telescope” photo- graphs, the book has 345 + xvill pages of delightful text. That it is authoritative is attested not only by the Astronomer Royal’s foreword, but also by the fact that Abetti is perhaps the fore- most of Italian astronomers. He is Director of the Arcetri Observatory outside Florence. He goes back to a time con- siderably before the Greeks and comes forward, interest- ingly all the way, to the very latest events and instruments. Non-technical, full of human interest, and with a sly thread of humour throughout, this History is to be very highly recommended to all our readers. Another True Book from Frederick Muller (Ludgate House, E.C.4) is a reprint of an Australian book. This edition is called THE TRUE BOOK ABOUT INYEN- TIONS. It costs 6s., and is rated as a juvenile, though 134 there is much in it that will entertain and instruct adults. The inventions dealt with range over printing, steam engines, the telephone, the spinning wheel, road vehicles, photography, aircraft, atomics and electronics. A nice litile book for the curious person of all ages. ADVENTURE OF THE WORLD, by James Fisher, comes from Rathbone Books (Adprint House, 5la, Rath- bone Place, London, W.1) at 10s. 6d. It is incredibly cheap and incredibly good. We use the word “incredibly” because it is somehow un- believable that in_ these austere days a book of such superb design and production could be put out so cheaply. In large format, 9$ x 124in., choc-full of beautifully repro- duced and executed coloured pictures, telling the story of the world, its birth, its geo- graphy and its relation to man, this book is something that every serious parent should buy for his children— connicloooks.comn “a a