. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II, No. 17. MAY 1921. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John Murray, 50.^ Albemarle Street, Ix)ndon, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, 125. 6d. post free; single numbers, IS. net, postage 2d. Binding cases for Vol. I, 1920, are now ready. Price 2s. 6d. ne
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II, No. 17. MAY 1921. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John Murray, 50.^ Albemarle Street, Ix)ndon, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, 125. 6d. post free; single numbers, IS. net, postage 2d. Binding cases for Vol. I, 1920, are now ready. Price 2s. 6d. net each ; postage y^d. Editorial Notes It is a great thing when a man, who knows his subject and wants others to share his knowledge, can so express himself that we, the general public, may not only follow him intelligently, but become interested in his subject, fascinated perhaps. The expert is sometimes prevented from \vTiting on his subject so that his readers get the pleasure possible in reading him, not because he is incapable of writing informingly and interestingly, but because unfor- tunately he is afraid of a bogey-man. The bogey-man sits up at the back behind the ninety-and-nine who want the matter explained simply, and spoils every- thing. The lecturer or the writer cannot let himself go. He dare not be funny. He must not his personality. For there before him is the bogey- man detecting every error, charging him ironically with bringing down matters to his level, muttering " superficial " or " writing down " or " childish analogies," and so it is that sometimes writers who were once good men become stiff and starchy, difficult and drj'-as-dust. ***** Professor Weekley, of Nottingham, is not one of these. He is one of those who believes that, inasmuch as books are written to be read, a good book should be, above all, interesting. His books on Surnames and The Romance of Words have done much to popularise the highly intere
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