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EINSTEIN'S NEW BOOK.

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When the Relativity theory was produced, one of

greteri scientists (who accepted it) declared that mankind would have "a terrible

time" in trying to comprehend it. In

this new

beck, "Sidelights an Belativity" (just published, Methuen, Sa. 6d.), Mr. Einstein deals interest | ingly with the question of the ether, a conception which is perhaps

even harder to understand than that of Eclativity itself.

There must be something in space to transmit the vibrations that are light and electricity. Newton sup posed that this something we the ether, an elastic, irers mediam, of the nature of a solid body." Yet it was not matter. Then came Here, who seemed to show that the ether in

no fundamental respect differed from matter; and the mystification of men was increased when he was followed by Lorentz, who denied that the ether could move, and declared that it was the seat of electro-magnetic fields, Now super Frofesser instein, who

tells the world:"

"Phone 1500.”

ODDS WARD ENDS.

ARE THE DIVORCE LAWS balation. The city of the seven hilla

UNFAIR?

will be destroyed and the Great Jadge will judge His people. Amen." |"Bourgeois by Order.”

JUDGE AND PROBLEM OF

ERRING PSTINONEK

"I am very sorry that I cannot sak every petitioner in undelended cases, Do you come into court with clean hands !'"

"I am not sure everybody is not fool who brings a breach of promise

action."

facts about himself.

"Bourgeois by order This will be one of the next Soviet decrees A bank clerk who has just escaped from Russis made this caustic com ment on the wild energy exhibited by the Bolsheviks in their efforts to get Russia back into the capitalistic system. But, so far as the old banks

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Popek und Prophecies..

Every Pope has his own prophecyms, football, golf, or baseball they When the Japanere play lawn ten- we are told. In Fation circles in observa the rules of the game as it is most distinctively characteristic of If one were asked to name the craft 1914 the prophecy of St. Malach did played in Europe or America. Con pot escape discussion. His motto for sequently, it is easy for a foreign the Port of London, the answer would the late Pontifcate man Religia de spectator to follow a match, and form be neither the stately liner nor the populata. It is enough for a pro some opinion as to the proficiency grubby tramp, neither tanker, collier, phecy to be of bad augury to make it shown, as compared with players of nor general cargo boat, not one of all interesting, but its interest was ang similar standing in his own county those many and various types of ships mented by another fact: the pro-When the Japanese play-polo-which phecy was one of a series After the is not often the foreign onlooker which bring to London's ancient riva fate Pontificate there will be, second not it a position to make comparisons the wealth and the wonder of Far ing to the prophecy eight more, each with matches he has seen elsewhere, lands and far seas. For none of the With its motto. Then will come the for the simple reason that their game are London's alone? go where you end of the world; and the motto of is altogether unlike anything seen in the Last Pope is "Pet.us Romanus.TM* "He will ferd his sheep in tringland, India, or the United States A's delicate compliment to the re patation of the Prince of Wales as polo player an exhibition of "Da-kya Was given in Tokyo in the grounds of the Imperial Palace. Few Japanes, and still fewer foreigners, have this game played; polo in any country is an expensive peakme, and in Japan there sen few” opportunities either for playing or, when the game is played, of seeing it, because it is rarely in- dulged in outside tha most exclusive circles. It was a popular amusement are concerned, there is absolutely no at Count 1,200 years ago, and its ex hope of their resurrection. The ponents nowadays, are a few your Bolsheviks have destroyed too well. men of the noblest families. That The ga tleman mentioned above great authority on things Japanese, These declarations were made by describes how the whole banking Professor B.H. Chamberlain, has given Mr. Justice Hill, in the Divorce Court, machinery has been disrupted and a detailed description of the rules of in setting aside a decres nisi granted destroyed. The books have been Da-ky," which helps to visualize to Mr. Arthar Wardle, of Kent-street, either destroyed or have been sold as what the Prince of Wales saw in Plaistow, following intervention by waste paper. The shares and bonds Takya.

The teams are usually seven aside, the King's Proctor, alleging miscon-in the vaults base been disperse dact.

many of them have been burned, and though a larger or smaller number Mr. Rawlinson, 0, for the King's only those marketable abroad have can play. Instead of clubs the Proctor, said that Mr. Wardle in his been carefully pat aside. To this player carry light bamboo rackets divorce proceedings did not disclose category belong the Chinese bonds about twice the length of lawn tennis his own adaltery to the judge. Mr. sold by Litvinoff in London two years rackets, and having a small net pocket Wardle now asked for the exercise of ago. The personnel no longer iets at the end in which a ball in carried the discretion of the court in his The best have been canrdered or have until thrown at the single "goal"

No scene would seem complete is favour, pleading that he was not fied the country othere remained which is an 18in. hole in a screen. aware be should have given the whole with the Bolsheviks undergoing the One teate wear white badges and play. London River without its barges— inevitable influence of a regime of with white balls; their opponents whether it be Blackwall Reach with **The whole change in the concep

Counsel mentioned that Mr. Wardle laziness and grafts

have coloured badges and play with one or two beating up or down fand red ball The players ride into the no vessel is much better than the bar tion of the ether which the special had also answered in the negative a 4 Novelist on Feviewing- Theory of Relativity brought about question in the Poor Person's Divorce

ex closure and line up in single file in ge at working to windward, of some Mr. Hugh Walole speaking o parallel lines, every man with a ball big dock basin with half a dozen tak consisted in taking away from the form: "Has aplicant been guilty of" The Novelist and the critic" at

in the net of his racket, which is helding, cargo aboard from a foreign going other its last mechanical quality, any matrimonial offence?”-

lancheon given by the Livery Con- horizontally. "At given signal the steamer with the rust of the seven namely, its immobility. It is a

Sir William Geary, for Mr. Wardle,mittee of the Stationers' Company. medium which is itself devoid of all said he could not understand why at Staticzers Fall, said that criticism players dash for the goal, the object seas on her plates, or a quiet little pier or greek which looks as if it hadn't' mechanical and kinematical qualities, public department should ask such a to-day was mostly either the super the hole in the essen into a bet changed since Dickens' time.

being to throw the halls through but helps to determine mechanical question when it could not be asked literary criticism of the literary paper bag, and, of course, at the same time

Landon 'barges fall into two big (and alectromagnetic) events.” of an ordinary litigant.

with the idea that books were caly to prevent the other side doing any with a pole mainmast only, whose classes the river or Medway bargES, The riddle of the ether remains, Mr. Justice Hit: The Statute only written for highly educated people, or haling out. Assuming that there are because the esker itself is something related to proceedings in court. the criticism which treated new books seven players in each teain, the bom-business is generally in the river itself which we cannot observe; and it is have often expressed the opinion that according their news value. When bardment of the goal continues onlits tributary creeks and round all the more mysterious sines the it hampen me greatly in ascertaining he was a young reviewer, he confessed, latest views of matter regard the the truth. I am very sorry I can't he believed that he had a roique and it is one man's job to keep his or topsail barges, which go far afield ne side has pocketed saved balls, about the eary, and the sea-going electrons (the basis of matter) as aak every petitioner in an undefended literary taste, and that the biggest comrades well supplied with balls, of on both the South and Fast Conate,

divorce case if he comes into court allts were the

written which there is a very large reterte and even "trade foreign" once in a with clean hands.

"Week after week I hanged the 13 in readiness outside the fald while to Rogen of "Aver Sir William: There would be far authors with big circulations on the The numbers of ball actually simul-

There is a certain domestic element fewer divorces granted if that were so, head with an enthusiasm that makes aneously in play is practically Ettle glimpses sometimes; by three about the barge. You can get pleasant Mr. Justice Hill: I think there me envious today to think about it," limited but only the amber equival little piers where they us up, of home- would.

he said. One should think more of ext to the strength of the teams like interiors, and a measure of rough No mse, continued Sir William, is life than of literature in reading thrown into the gual. Every time a obliged to accuse himself, and I novel.

With the present food of player scores the fact is emphasized comfort; s brown Zespót, a contend that no public department fiction what was reedel was review by beating a drum-to denote & seareshing its face, even, it may be, a should put such a question.

ing, not necessarily in literary papers to one side, while a gong is struck to woman's white apron, for the barge Mr. Justice Hill: It sounds rather or by literary men, which would make indicate a score for the other. In kipper not infrequently takes the an odd thing, when the country has booke as interesting to the reader as addition, seven balls of the two missus along with him, to bear the cost of these proceedings. a boxing match. Novel writing and colours are suspended on a cord hang No doubt there are other and les that a petitioner who is inviting criti in were being divorced from in front of the screen, one each ade pleasant accompaniments of barge life, assistance should not be saked whether daily life. The ordinary, reading of the goal, and as soon as a player

on a closer acquaintance such as depends upon temperature external | he is an innocent party or not. public should be able to express its forces etc. Thus, in measuring with Sir William: I submit that a poor opinion on the books it read. a steel rod os column of mercury in a person should be in exactly the same Sir Frederick Macmillan said people barometer, allowance must be made pos tion as a rich person I do not neither west to theatres nor read for temperature and other disturbing know that au ordinary solicitor would books because, the newspapers praised ask a client to a divorce ruit whether them. No reviewer, highbrow or "Sidelights on Relativity" is she or she had committed adultery or otherwise, welcomed the moris of

friend, the late Mr. Charles Garvice, been a seafaring man, in croesture bat they could not prevent pco Mr. Wardle, who said that he had as great additions to English, liters examination denied the suggestion ple baying them that he posed sa a single man and a. E. c. on Milton. under promise of marriage reduced a

It does really seem to me that girl named Chapman.

The girl, who is now married, after

Milton was an artist, and nothing but

JAZZ WRIGGLING: being told by Mr. Justice Hill that she artist; and yet so great an artist reserves of ammunition, and if they In statement to the Royal need not give evidence unless she wish sa to sustain by his own strength the are successful in bringing their score Astronomical Society, London, Mr.ed, told the Court the story of her seems to me at six ost solitary ex-been able to hole out their one ball, ides that art can exist alone. He up to seven before the Reds have)

GIRL WHO CAN'T STOP.、 Frank Sargent, of the Durham Univer seduction, and said she had a child by ample of a man of magnificent genius play is again suspended, and the aity Observatory, records a eitious Mr. Wardle.

An arresting instance of the pouri phenomenon on the surface of Jupiter,

the fact that the girl did not bring an anything connected with morality, their forces. The scores being now in the action brought against a New spouting from the earth in a fountain resident of Peterborough, bought the

whose greatness dose not depend at White are given a similar speriaklad, ble results of an over indulgence in Sir William Geary commented on all upon mors! earnestness, or apon upon which they also concentrate jazz and other modern dances is seen

If you want to see sods-water

Recently Mr. H. Nesterson, a action for breach of promise. been fool if she had. He had no

Mr. Justice Hill: She would have is greatness is in a style, and a equal, victory rests with the team York theatrical producer, Ernie you must come to Clinton, says the property on which the spring stands

style which seems to me rather which is successful in scoring with the Young, by, a pretty dancer, Marie Daily News in mal week.

and bad its waters tested by le di *** dense masses of vapour, which oving means. I am not sure everybody is usually separate from its substance {one ball

Ehlers. The girl claims that sa the Jupiter's rapid spin (under 10 not a fool who brings such an action

In this little Northamptonshire Landım analyste, who reported that One bool at least of "Paradías Lost" Play during the second stage is mich result of continuous jer dancing the earth) are drawn opt into long said the decree

Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Enrould claim the more audacious title more exciting that during the first under Young's direction she has con- village, lying few miles out from Nature had supplied England with s mineral water superior to any foreign nini would be of" Paradise Found." But if it was stage, and there is plenty of dribbling, acted a disease described by her Peterborough, there has been dis- belts parallel to its equator. Daring rescinded, and Mr. Wardle must pay to pass through Limbo, why was it trying to score. There is

Variety, use an necessary for the poet going to Eden dodging, passing, and long shots in physicians sa “darkhzeitis.” covered the only natamad soda spring May 1921 Mr. Sargent discovered that the cost. He waid he had not de

also She pleads that she was required in the world. Nature, in a freakish sparkling clean to taste, and as dif- It does not require to be filtered, is large area of the planet's surf cided the question mised as to the necessary to pass through Lambeth opportunity for brilant team work by the defendant to execute many fit of hospitality, invites you to have ferent from ordinary water as a-vin- had become greatly disturbed Poor Persons doenment. When and Little Bethel? Why should he in securing possession of the contortions of avoiations, distortions,

became necessary he would decis the go there eia Rome and Geneva Why opponents ball and preventing the and gytaus associated with modern "splash with her-nots mere tage champagne is from ordinary than the rest. The ares affected wet pomit

was it necessary to compare the rightful owners from regaining it, dancing, particularly writhing the “split” or a bottleful, but gallons of wat almost equal in size to the continent

Since then Mr. Neavezson has sunk In allowing another decree to stand debris of Limbo to the details of Vigorous beating of the gong or the hips and shaking and shivering the it. She throws ocda-water about as of Burope.

Mr. Justice Bill remarked that all

ecclesiastical. quarrers in the drum, according to which side wins, shoulders." The last named motion, recklessly, a one might splash bath | 18 wells in the neighbourhood, but ha Imagine Ireland suddenly breaking petitioners in undefined divorce seventeenth century, when he was announces the end of the game, and of course, refine to the notorious walet

not been able to tap the supply at any from her moorings and deifting scro cases must understand that they moving in a world before the dawn the winners ride out of the enclosure shimmy dance.

Bound the fountain has been buils | other point. No one can explain the the Atlantic and one has some ide of fought to make a full disclosure of firet quarrel? Why dd be talk dismennt and follow on foot, leading timnous perfamming of these antics, rock and beautiful with palms, in the it is conjectured that there must be a of all the centuries, or the shadow of in single file. The lowers have to. The result of several month's con- a miniature grotto fashioned of quarts presence of the spring st filinton, but

twists in the ether.

A second subject with which Pro frmoz Einstein deals in this book is

the relation of geometry to experience.

He points out that as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.

This the geometry of Ead'd Assumes the existence of solid, rigid bodies. But as Mr. Einstein caya:

Under closer inspection the real solid bodies of nature are not rigid bacause their geometrical behaviour

Caples

suggestive book, though it cannot be not. desorbed as easy reading.

GIANT PLANET MYSTERY.

JUPITER'S SURFACE SLIPPING.

which is 1,000 times the size of the

earth.

The surface of the planet, socord ing to astronomers, is covered with

hours instead of 24 as in the case of

was moving 70 miles an hour air

what has happensá ón Júpiter.

It was interesting to find this great marbande repeating itself within twelve months This year's distor bance was firas detected on March 31, fines when the area has been kept up- dat close scrutiny, The slipping ares is sot quite so large as last year and the movement is somewhat slower, During the time the feature has bee under observationists drifted shout 1000 miles, of equal to about, tylso

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scores, a hall of the corresponding rata, cockroaches and other insects coloor is removed ezfil at last all whose very name is taboo among the seven have gone. This ends the first Polite. But the loiterer on the pier stage of the game.

can afford to ignore thess-details. Assuming that the Reds have been The light begins to glow on the the fint to hole out their seven balls gathering dusk from the open batch- and the Whites have scored only four, way,

ball, and as soon as they are success play then proceeds is follows:- The tuning up; and through the idle ropes Reds are given one specially marked and brailed up sails the wind goes singing, singing its old, mysterious, fal in getting this into the goal, the untranslateable song. game is won. Meaatims, the Whites continue to bombard the goal with shots from their still unexhausted

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