JESUS AND EARTHQUAKES

by FrankE. Austin; '95 privately printed in Hanover, N. H.; 91 pages; $1.

In a neat little booklet of 91 pages, Former Professor F. E. Austin of the Thayer School, discusses in a scientific and philosophical fashion the part that earthquakes play and have played in the life of man, as far as we have any record. The title is "Jesus and Earthquakes" but it seems to the reviewer that the title might have been more aptly "Earthquakes and the Bible," since the material deals not only with passages from the New Testament dealing with this natural devastating phenomenon, but also with the Old Testament and the words of the Prophets.

Professor Austin, who has made hobbies in ant-houses, cricket houses and beehives pay real dividends, ventured into the book field a year or two ago with "Sammy Cricket" a book which went into several printings and has been used in schools. This later book has more appeal, perhaps, to the adult mind, since it discusses ts subject from the point of view of a scientist, yet it too could be used in schools since there is no particular denominational slant. The discussions of that mathematical and astronomical prodigy, the Great Pyramid, has great interest in itself as have the tables of great earthquakes of the past and the charts illustrating the chief points of the Pyramid and the Valley of the Nile. Dedicated to the late Professor Robert Fletcher, and very well indexed, the book is neat and compact, suitable for libraries, and easy to carry about in a pocket.