An elementary treatment of the theory of spinning tops and gyroscopic motion, by Harold Crabtree.

TO MY OLD COACH AND FRIEND
DR. W. H. BESANT, F.R.S.
(Senior Wrangler, 1850)
TIE last of all your pupils I, the last
Of a long line, and some far-known to-day.
For mne no fame: enough, the humbler way,
To follow you who pioneered the past.
And how we loved your book! wherein you cast
You:r spells on moving worlds or meaner clay:The "jet of sand," the "falling chains," the sway
And poise of planet-spheres, dim, distant, vast.
You tell ste now the wheels of Life run slow,
And the chains loosen. Sinks the lessening sacn
While, as you rest, comes the calm evening glow,
" Cometh the night "-your notto. So you stand
To watch the day depart; yet, cMaster, know
Still burns your torch, passed on from hand to hand.
H. C.
1909.