EXTRACTS FROM RECENT REVIEWS OF THE ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS. THE ATHENEUM, 14th Oct., 1865. We know of no work which so faithfully fulfils the duty of supplying general readers with elementary matter as the Physics of Dr. Arnott. It is written in a remarkably clear style; and often when dealing with the more exalted truths it rises into eloquence without being inflated. THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, 1st Oct., 1865. That after so long a delay there should still be a public eager for Dr. Arnott's new edition is a striking testimony to its reputation; and indeed we may say, without injustice, that the qualities which many years ago gave to this treatise a distinctive place among works of popular science, still give it a superiority over all rivals. In perfect clearness of conception, and consequent clearness of statement, Dr. Arnott has not been surpassed. His book may be read by a philosopher or a child.. THE LANCET, 14th Oct., 1865. The charming simplicity of the style, and the erudition which it displayed, gave it at once a world-wide reputation. It was translated into most European languages, and reprinted in America. The revolution which has occurred with respect to many subjects discussed has afforded the learned author the opportunity of embodying in these volumes what is novel and interesting.. DAILY NEWS, 14th Oct., 1865. Dr. Arnott's Physics is honourably distinguished as the first work of serious value in which the attempt was made to convey in the English tongue the leading facts and doctrines of science without employing the technical phraseology of the schools. In our own days everybody is expected to have a general acquaintance with them; and this change is in a great measure owing to his writings. THE MEDICAL TIMES AND GAZETTE, Jan., 1866 There is a charm in this work depending on the simplicity with which the principles are laid before the reader, and an enthusiasm which pervades the author's exposition of the wonders of nature which render it extremely popular. THE LONDON REVIEW, 17th Feb., 1866. The extraordinary popularity achieved by this book over other publications on the same subject is, we conceive, to be attributed to its having surpassed them in a corresponding degree in the clearness and impressiveness of its style; in short, the method of the work is alone sufficient to stamp it as a remarkable production, since it possesses, in a high degree, every quality which can contribute to promote its object. The value of the work as the means of moulding the mind in youth can hardly be over estimated. As a specimen of the admirable junction of brevity with clearness, characteristic of Dr. Arnott's writings, we extract the analysis of the chapter on Heat, at page 406. MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW, Oct., 1866. It is no small recommendation to a work of this kind that, whilst it instructs on matters the most abstruse, it excites an interest little inferior to that which is felt in the perusal of a romance. NOTICES OF EARLY EDITIONS OF THE ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS. THE TIMES, 3rd Oct., 1827. THE pressure only of more immediate matters has prevented us from giving an earlier notice of this very valuable work. This great desideratum (of writing intelligibly on subjects deemed difficult) as far as the Elements of Physics are concerned, the labour of Dr. Arnott has at length supplied, and that with a degree of success and completeness, not merely which has never before been arrived at, but which we may venture to predict will not be surpassed. His book has the strong and peculiar merit that, although a book of immense labour, all the labour has been taken by the author. To the most idle schoolboy it will be as entertaining as a treatise on witchcraft or legerdemaine. . . ... THE ATHENEUM, 2nd Jan., 1828. The admirable work before us brings at last the philosophy of nature to our very doors. It has made a highway for us to the very heart of the subject, out of the words and phrases of our mother tongue. Although addressed to the public in general, it is in truth as worthy of the perusal of the accomplished mathematician as if it had been written for him alone. A charm of the book lies in what we would call the spirit of human interest which pervades and animates it, in those irradiations of heart and fancy which give their heat and glow to so many of its pages. 66 DR. WHEWELL, Cambridge (late Master of Trinity), in his First Principles of Mechanics, published in 1832, page v., says— It is, I hope, one of the privileges of an elementary essay like the present to borrow freely and without blame from the best works which have been published. I have used the privilege to a considerable extent. In the illustrations of the fundamental laws, Dr. Arnott's deservedly popular Elements of Physics contains well-selected examples stated with great liveliness; and I have in some instances transcribed from such portions of his work several sentences in succession. I have in the same manner borrowed from Adam Smith's History of Astronomy, Sir John Herschel's admirable Study of Natural Philosophy,"-other names follow of Babbage, Davies Gilbert, Tredgold, &c. HOUSEHOLD WORDS, 10th July, 1852. Whoever has had the pleasure of studying Dr. Arnott's Elements of Physics, must have dwelt with peculiar zest on some illustrations of its doctrines drawn from the structure of the human body. 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