New Books*

XXV Years of “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism,” V. I. Lenin: 1909–1934, Moscow–Leningrad, ONTI, Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature, 1935 (actually 1936), 340 pp. + 3 inset sheets of illus. Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy, edited by M. B. Mitin, E. Kolman, and A. A. Maksimov, Proceedings of the Scientific Session of the Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy. 7000, 7 rubles + 1 ruble postage.

The collection contains reports and speeches, printed from the stenographic records of the scientific session of the Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy, devoted to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of V. I. Lenin’s brilliant philosophical work Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, held in the Great Hall of the Communist Academy from June 20 to 23, 1934.

ARTHUR HAAS, Introduction to Theoretical Physics. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities, Moscow–Leningrad, ONTI, Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1936, vol. II, translated from the 6th German edition by Prof. V. V. Shuleikin, 423 pp. with plates, drawings, diagrams, and graphs. 5000, 5 rubles 50 kopecks + 1 ruble 25 kopecks postage. Original title sheet in German.

Contents. Electrons, atoms, and light quanta. Fundamentals of atomic mechanics. Atomic spectra. X-rays. Atomic nuclei. Molecules. Interaction of light with matter. Statistical foundation of thermodynamics. Kinetic theory of gases. Statistical mechanics. Quantum statistics. Special principle of relativity. Theory of gravitation.

The book is supplemented with a synopsis, a survey of the principal notations and universal physical constants, and name and subject indexes.

P. DEBYE, Prof., Structure of Matter. Translated from the German by V. I. Radchenko, edited by B. N. Finkelstein, Kharkov, ONTI-DNTVU, 1936, 72 pp. with graphs, 5000, 90 kopecks. Half-title in German.

The book consists of four reports by the author, delivered by him in Germany, England, and America, devoted to the most topical questions of molecular physics and acquainting readers, in popular form, with the newest studies of the structure of molecules, liquids, and solutions of electrolytes, carried out chiefly at the physical institute of the University of Leipzig, of which he is director.

COKER and FILON, Optical Method for the Investigation of Stresses. Translated from the English. 3500, 10 rubles + 1 ruble postage.

L. SCHILLER, Motion of Liquids in Tubes. Translated from the German by G. A. Wolfenzon, Moscow–Leningrad, ONTI, Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1936, 230 pp. with illus., drawings, and graphs + (1) page of advertisements. 3500, 4 rubles 50 kopecks + 1 ruble postage. Original title sheet in German. Bibliography (pp. 4–5).

* Compiled from materials of the Review-Bibliographic Department of ONTI.

Contents. Law of similarity in flows in pipes. General experimental technique for studying flows in pipes. Laminar and turbulent flows in a straight circular pipe. Transition from laminar flow to turbulent flow. Critical Reynolds number. Flow in straight pipes with noncircular cross-section, in pipes with variable transverse cross-section, and in curved pipes. Flow in rough pipes.

Proceedings of the State Optical Institute. Leningrad, L.—M., ONTI, Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature, 1936, vol. XI, issue 90, 75 pp. with ill., drawings, and graphs. 7.00, 2 rubles.

Contents. A. A. Gershun, On photometry of turbid media. M. Gurevich and L. Chakhrov, A new method for determining the transparency of a layer. V. Ginzburg, V. Pulver, and V. Fabrikant, On the scattering of light in strongly turbid media. A. Gershun, The passage of light through a plane layer of a light-scattering medium. N. Boldyrev and A. Aleksandrov, Scattering of light in an infinite plane layer. M. Gurevich, Luminescence of a light-scattering volume.