During the momentous years of 1914-19, Einstein quietly pursued his labors. There seems to be some foundation for the belief that the ways of the German High Command found little favor in his eyes. At any rate, he was not one of the forty professors who signed the famous manifesto extolling Germany's aims. "We know for a fact," writes Dr. O. A. Rankine, of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, "that Einstein never was employed on war work. Whatever may have been Germany's mistakes in other directions, she left her men of science severely alone. In fact, they were encouraged to continue in their normal occupations. Einstein undoubtedly received a large measure of support from the Imperial Government, even when the German armies were being driven back across Belgium." Quite recently (June, 1920) the Barnard Medal of Columbia University was conferred on him "in recognition of his highly original and fruitful development of the fundamental concepts of physics through application of mathematics." In acknowledging the honor, Prof. Einstein wrote to President Butler that "... quite apart from the personal satisfaction, I believe I may regard your decision [to confer the medal upon him] as a harbinger of a better time in which a sense of international solidarity will once more unite scholars of the various countries." REFERENCES For those lacking all astronomical knowledge, an excellent plan would be to read the first 40 pages of W. H. Snyder's Everyday Science (Allyn and Bacon), in which may be found a clear and simple account of the solar system. This could be followed with Bertrand Russell's chapter on The Nature of Matter in his little volume, The Problems of Philosophy (Henry Holt and Co.). Here the reader will be introduced to the purely philosophical side of the question--quite a necessary equipment for the understanding of Einstein's theory.