L. Tarasov's book "Laser Age in Optics" is a popular science book concerned with new trends in optics arising from development of the laser.L. Tarasov, Cand Sc, who is an Assistant Professor of the chair of Electronics of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Design, also teaches at the Moscow state University. In this book the author successfully combines a popular style of presentation with, when necessary, a serious scientific treatment of the problems involved. Consequently, the book can be recommended not only for secondary school students but also for a layman adult reader wanting to study in some detail the principles involved in lasers, optical holography and nonlinear optics The reader will find a popular, vivid and intelligent presentation of many elusive concepts which, as a rule, are either not covered at all in literature of this kind or only in passing.