Science: For Doe

Evolution for John Doe—Henshaw Ward—Bobbs Merrill ($3.50)

The late holy war at Dayton, Tenn., gave occasion for a great host of fakirs, professional prophets and pseudo-scientific potboilers to flood the land with cheap literature for and against Evolution. The end of the aftermath is not yet. Even the Bible-sellers have felt the boom and prepared popular editions of that much-feared-for book. But if any new Evolution text for laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New...