A Book of Hours contains 24 essays, one for each hour of the day,
that seek to bridge the gap between definitive scientific philosophy and
the sheer unadulterated beauty that Donald Culross Peattie envisioned
within everyday life. The Boston Transcript referred to this collection
as "science, in sheer poetry," and the Chicago Daily Tribune mused
that "it leaves one a better man for having read it" and offers "the
inevitableness of natural laws and the truth of beauty, if one cares to
seek it."