Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 131: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Similar in approach and quality is the ENCYCLOPAEDIA FOR CHILDREN, put out by Odhams (Long Acre, W.C.2) at 25s. This enormous book (12 inches by 9 inches, 384 pages) is simply crammed with full-colour illustrations that are some of the most excellent we have ever seen. They and the highly competent text cover every branch of know- ledge in quite considerable detail, and in attractively modern style. If this is the kind of thing that children get these days, there seems little fun in growing up! Every parent who is concerned for his children’s mental wel- fare must buy this book—even if it means a minor sacrifice for a week or two. And few parents will not derive hours of pleasure in looking at the 2,500 pictures in this really superb publication. Encyclo- pedias have a reputation for being dry-as-dust. This one gives the lie to it. Here, indeed, is a way to learn without tears. Buy it, everyone. In a different sort of way, PEARS CYCLOPAEDIA is a very useful book. It is put out by A. & F. Pears, Ltd. (Isleworth, Middlesex) at 12s. 6d. Its | thousand-odd pages of fine 130 “The print contain most of the answers that people are always wanting to know—and a lot more besides. This 63rd edi- tion contains a new section, World of Science,” which is surprisingly complete and accurate, dealing with all the major branches of science from the modern point of view. As a reference book that you have to read every time you refer to it, PEARS CYCLOPAEDIA is first-rate. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GUIDED MISSILE, by Kenneth W. Gatland (lliffe, Stamford Street, S.E.1, 15s.) is a sadden- ing book. Excellently written, beautifully and lavishly il- lustrated, nicely produced, it is a perfect book of its type and subject. What makes us sad is that, necessarily, six of its nine chapters are concerned with devices for murdering people—bombs, shells, things like that. Of course, we can’t blame the author for any of this, and we hasten to say that Mr. Gatland has produced a very highly recommendable book. It contains everything you want to know about guided missiles and tells the story in fluent, attractive prose. In places it tends toward the technical, but there is not so comiclooks.conm