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LITERATURE AND ART.
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73.EURIPIDES AND HIS AGE. By Gilbert Murray, Regius Professorof Greek, Oxford.
101.DANTE. By Jefferson B. Fletcher, Columbia University. An interpretationof Dante and his teaching from his writings.
2.SHAKESPEARE. By John Masefield. “One of the very few indispensableadjuncts to a Shakespearean Library.”—BostonTranscript.
81.CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES. By Grace E. Hadow, Lecturer, LadyMargaret Hall, Oxford; Late Reader, Bryn Mawr.
97.MILTON. By John Bailey.
59.DR. JOHNSON AND HIS CIRCLE. By John Bailey. Johnson’s life,character, works, and friendships are surveyed; and there is a notablevindication of the “Genius of Boswell.”
83.WILLIAM MORRIS: HIS WORK AND INFLUENCE. By A. CluttonBrock, author of “Shelley: The Man and the Poet.” William Morrisbelieved that the artist should toil for love of his work rather than thegain of his employer, and so he turned from making works of art toremaking society.
75.SHELLEY, GODWIN AND THEIR CIRCLE. By H. N. Brailsford.The influence of the French Revolution on England.
70.ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL. By Jane E. Harrison, LL. D., D.Litt. “One of the 100 most important books of 1913.”—New YorkTimes Review.
45.MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE. By W. P. Ker, Professorof English Literature, University College, London. “One of thesoundest scholars. His style is effective, simple, yet never dry.”—TheAthenaeum.
87.THE RENAISSANCE. By Edith Sichel, author of “Catherine deMedici,” “Men and Women of the French Renaissance.”
89.ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE. By J. M. Robertson, M. P.,author of “Montaigne and Shakespeare,” “Modern Humanists.”
27.MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE. By G. H. Mair. From Wyattand Surrey to Synge and Yeats. “One of the best of this great series.”—ChicagoEvening Post.
61.THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE. By G. K. Chesterton.
40.THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By L. P. Smith. A concise historyof its origin and development.
66.WRITING ENGLISH PROSE. By William T. Brewster, Professorof English, Columbia University. “Should be put into the handsof every man who is beginning to write and of every teacher of Englishwho has brains enough to understand sense.”—New York Sun.
58.THE NEWSPAPER. By G. Binney Dibblee. The first full accountfrom the inside of newspaper organization as it exists to-day.
48.GREAT WRITERS OF AMERICA. By W. P. Trent and JohnErskine, Columbia University.
93.AN OUTLINE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE. By Maurice Baring,author of “The Russian People,” etc. Tolstoi, Tourgenieff, Dostoieffsky,Pushkin (the father of Russian Literature,) Saltykov (thesatirist,) Leskov, and many other authors.
31.LANDMARKS IN FRENCH LITERATURE, By G. L. Strachey,Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. “It is difficult to imaginehow a better account of French Literature could be given in 250 pages.”—LondonTimes.
64.THE LITERATURE OF GERMANY. By J. G. Robertson.
62.PAINTERS AND PAINTING. By Sir Frederick Wedmore. With16 half-tone illustrations.
33.ARCHITECTURE. By Prof. W. R. Lethaby. An introduction tothe history and theory of the art of building.
NATURAL SCIENCE.
68.DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES. By W. T. Councilman, M. D.,LL. D., Professor of Pathology, Harvard University.
85.SEX. By J. Arthur Thompson and Patrick Geddes, joint authorsof “The Evolution of Sex.”
71.PLANT LIFE. By J. B. Farmer, D. Sc., F. R. S., Professor of Botanyin the Imperial College of Science, London. This very fullyillustrated volume contains an account of the salient features of plantform and function.
63.THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE. By Benjamin M. Moore,Professor of Bio-Chemistry, Liverpool.
90.CHEMISTRY. By Raphael Meldola, F. R. S., Professor of Chemistry,Finsbury Technical College. Presents the way in which thescience has developed and the stage it has reached.
53.ELECTRICITY. By Gisbert Kapp, Professor of Electrical Engineering,University of Birmingham.
54.THE MAKING OF THE EARTH. By J. W. Gregory, Professor ofGeology, Glasgow University. 38 maps and figures. Describesthe origin of the earth, the formation and changes of its surface andstructure, its geological history, the first appearance of life, and itsinfluence upon the globe.
56.MAN: A HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY. By A. Keith, M. D.,Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, London. Showshow the human body developed.
74.NERVES. By David Fraser Harris, M. D., Professor of Physiology,Dalhousie University, Halifax. Explains in non-technicallanguage the place and powers of the nervous system.
21.AN INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE. By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson,Science Editor of the Home University Library. For those unacquaintedwith the scientific volumes in the series, this should provean excellent introduction.
14.EVOLUTION. By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson and Prof. PatrickGeddes. Explains to the layman what the title means to the scientificworld.
23.ASTRONOMY. By A. R. Hinks, Chief Assistant at the CambridgeObservatory. “Decidedly original in substance, and the most readableand informative little book on modern astronomy we have seen for along time.”—Nature.
24.PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. By Prof. W. F. Barrett, formerly Presidentof the Society for Psychical Research.
9.THE EVOLUTION OF PLANTS. By Dr. D. H. Scott, Presidentof the Linnean Society of London. The story of the developmentof flowering plants, from the earliest zoological times, unlocked fromtechnical language.
43.MATTER AND ENERGY. By F. Soddy, Lecturer in PhysicalChemistry and Radioactivity, University of Glasgow. “Brilliant.Can hardly be surpassed. Sure to attract attention.”—New YorkSun.
41.PSYCHOLOGY, THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOUR. By William McDougall,of Oxford. A well digested summary of the essentials of thescience put in excellent literary form by a leading authority.
42.THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY. By Prof. J. G. McKendrick.A compact statement by the Emeritus Professor at Glasgow, foruninstructed readers.
37.ANTHROPOLOGY. By R. R. Marett, Reader in Social Anthropology,Oxford. Seeks to plot out and sum up the general series ofchanges, bodily and mental, undergone by man in the course ofhistory. “Excellent. So enthusiastic, so clear and witty, and sowell adapted to the general reader.”—American Library AssociationBooklist.
17.CRIME AND INSANITY. By Dr. C. Mercier, author of "Crimeand Criminals,” etc.
12.THE ANIMAL WORLD. By Prof. F. W. Gamble.
15.INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS. By A. N. Whitehead,author of “Universal Algebra.”
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION.
69.A HISTORY OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT. By John B. Bury,M. A., LL. D., Regius Professor of Modern History in CambridgeUniversity. Summarizes the history of the long struggle betweenauthority and reason and of the emergence of the principle that coercionof opinion is a mistake.
96.A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. By Clement C. J. Webb, Oxford.
35.THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY. By Bertrand Russell, Lecturerand Late Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.
60.COMPARATIVE RELIGION. By Prof. J. Estlin Carpenter, “Oneof the few authorities on this subject compares all the religions tosee what they have to offer on the great themes of religion.”—ChristianWork and Evangelist.
44.BUDDHISM. By Mrs. Rhys Davids, Lecturer on Indian Philosophy,Manchester.
46.ENGLISH SECTS: A HISTORY OF NONCONFORMITY. By W. B.Selbie. Principal of Manchester College, Oxford.
55.MISSIONS: THEIR RISE AND DEVELOPMENT. By Mrs. MandellCreighton, author of “History of England.” The author seeks toprove that missions have done more to civilize the world than anyother human agency.
52.ETHICS. By G. E. Moore, Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge.Discusses what is right and what is wrong, and the whys and wherefores.
65.THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. By George F.Moore, Professor of the History of Religion, Harvard University. “Apopular work of the highest order. Will be profitable to anybodywho cares enough about Bible study to read a serious book on thesubject.”—American Journal of Theology.
88.RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.By R. H. Charles, Canon of Westminster. Shows howreligious and ethical thought between 180 B. C. and 100 A. D. grewnaturally into that of the New Testament.
50.THE MAKING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By B. W. Bacon,Professor of New Testament Criticism, Yale. An authoritativesummary of the results of modern critical research with regard tothe origins of the New Testament.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
91.THE NEGRO. By W. E. Burghardt DuBois, author of “Souls ofBlack Folks,” etc. A history of the black man in Africa, America orwherever else his presence has been or is important.
77.CO-PARTNERSHIP AND PROFIT SHARING. By Aneurin Williams,Chairman, Executive Committee, International Co-operativeAlliance, etc. Explains the various types of co-partnership andprofit-sharing, and gives details of the arrangements now in force inmany of the great industries.
99.POLITICAL THOUGHT: THE UTILITARIANS. FROM BENTHAMTO J. S. MILL. By William L. P. Davidson.
98.POLITICAL THOUGHT: FROM HERBERT SPENCER TO THEPRESENT DAY. By Ernest Barker, M. A.
79.UNEMPLOYMENT. By A. C. Pigou, M. A., Professor of PoliticalEconomy at Cambridge. The meaning, measurement, distribution,and effects of unemployment, its relation to wages, trade fluctuations,and disputes, and some proposals of remedy or relief.
80.COMMON-SENSE IN LAW. By Prof. Paul Vinogradoff, D. C. L.,LL. D. Social and Legal Rules—Legal Rights and Duties—Factsand Acts in Law—Legislation—Custom—Judicial Precedents—Equity—TheLaw of Nature.
49.ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. By S. J. Chapman,Professor of Political Economy and Dean of Faculty of Commerceand Administration, University of Manchester.
11.THE SCIENCE OF WEALTH. By J. A. Hobson, author of “Problemsof Poverty.” A study of the structure and working of the modernbusiness world.
1.PARLIAMENT. ITS HISTORY, CONSTITUTION, AND PRACTICE.By Sir Courtenay P. Ilbert, Clerk of the House of Commons.
16.LIBERALISM. By Prof. L. T. Hobhouse, author of “Democracy andReaction.” A masterly philosophical and historical review of the subject.
5.THE STOCK EXCHANGE. By F. W. Hirst, Editor of the LondonEconomist. Reveals to the non-financial mind the facts about investment,speculation, and the other terms which the title suggests.
10.THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT. By J. Ramsay Macdonald, Chairmanof the British Labor Party.
28.THE EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRY. By D. H. MacGregor, Professorof Political Economy, University of Leeds. An outline of the recentchanges that have given us the present conditions of the working classesand the principles involved.
29.ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH LAW. By W. M. Geldart, VinerianProfessor of English Law, Oxford. A simple statement of the basicprinciples of the English legal system on which that of the UnitedStates is based.
32.THE SCHOOL: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EDUCATION.By J. J. Findlay, Professor of Education, Manchester.Presents the history, the psychological basis, and the theory of theschool with a rare power of summary and suggestion.
6.IRISH NATIONALITY. By Mrs. J. R. Green. A brilliant accountof the genius and mission of the Irish people. “An entrancing work,and I would advise every one with a drop of Irish blood in his veinsor a vein of Irish sympathy in his heart to read it.”—New York TimesReview.
GENERAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.
102.SERBIA. By L. F. Waring, with preface by J. M. Jovanovitch,Serbian Minister to Great Britain. The main outlines of Serbianhistory, with special emphasis on the immediate causes of the war,and the question which will be of greatest importance in the after-the-warsettlement.
33.THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By A. F. Pollard, Professor ofEnglish History, University of London.
95.BELGIUM. By R. C. K. Ensor, Sometime Scholar of Balliol College.The geographical, linguistic, historical, artistic and literary associations.
100.POLAND. By J. Alison Phillips, University of Dublin. The historyof Poland with special emphasis upon the Polish question of the presentday.
34.CANADA. By A. G. Bradley.
72.GERMANY OF TO-DAY. By Charles Tower.
78.LATIN AMERICA. By William R. Shepherd, Professor of History,Columbia. With maps. The historical, artistic, and commercialdevelopment of the Central South American republics.
18.THE OPENING UP OF AFRICA. By Sir H. H. Johnston.
19.THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA. By H. A. Giles, Professor ofChinese, Cambridge.
36.PEOPLES AND PROBLEMS OF INDIA. By Sir T. W. Holderness.“The best small treatise dealing with the range of subjects fairly indicatedby the title.”—The Dial.
26.THE DAWN OF HISTORY. By J. L. Myers, Professor of AncientHistory, Oxford.
92.THE ANCIENT EAST. By D. G. Hogarth, M. A., F. B. A., F. S. A.Connects with Prof. Myers’s “Dawn of History” (No. 26) at about1000 B. C. and reviews the history of Assyria, Babylon, Cilicia, Persiaand Macedon.
30.ROME. By W. Warde Fowler, author of “Social Life at Rome,” etc.
13.MEDIEVAL EUROPE. By H. W. C. Davis, Fellow at Balliol College,Oxford, author of “Charlemagne,” etc.
3.THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Hilaire Belloc.
57.NAPOLEON, By H. A. L. Fisher, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University.Author of “The Republican Tradition in Europe.”
20.HISTORY OF OUR TIME. (1885-1911). BY C. P. Gooch.
22.THE PAPACY AND MODERN TIMES. By Rev. William Barry,D. D., author of “The Papal Monarchy,” etc. The story of the rise andfall of the Temporal Power.
4.A SHORT HISTORY OF WAR AND PEACE. By G. H. Perris,author of “Russia in Revolution,” etc.
94.THE NAVY AND SEA POWER. By David Hannay, author of “ShortHistory of the Royal Navy,” etc. A brief history of the navies, seaPower, and ship growth of all nations, including the rise and declineof America on the sea, and explaining the present British supremacy.
8.POLAR EXPLORATION. By Dr. W. S. Bruce, Leader of the“Scotia” expedition. Emphasizes the results of the expeditions.
51.MASTER MARINERS. By John R. Spears, author of “The Historyof Our Navy,” etc. A history of sea craft adventure from theearliest times.
86.EXPLORATION OF THE ALPS. By Arnold Lunn, M. A.
7.MODERN GEOGRAPHY. By Dr. Marion Newbigin. Shows the relationof physical features to living things and to some of the chief institutionsof civilization.
76.THE OCEAN. A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SCIENCE OFTHE SEA. By Sir John Murray, K. C. B., Naturalist H. M. S. “Challenger,”1872-1876, joint author of “The Depths of the Ocean,” etc.
84.THE GROWTH OF EUROPE. By Granville Cole, Professor ofGeology, Royal College of Science, Ireland. A study of the geologyand physical geography in connection with the political geography.
AMERICAN HISTORY.
47.THE COLONIAL PERIOD (1607-1766). By Charles McLean Andrews,Professor of American History, Yale.
82.THE WARS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA (1763-1815).By Theodore C. Smith, Professor of American History, WilliamsCollege. A history of the period, with especial emphasis on The Revolutionand The War of 1812.
67.FROM JEFFERSON TO LINCOLN (1815-1860). By William MacDonald.Professor of History, Brown University. The author makesthe history of this period circulate about constitutional ideas and slaverysentiment.
25.THE CIVIL WAR (1854-1865). By Frederick L. Paxson, Professorof American History, University of Wisconsin.
69.RECONSTRUCTION AND UNION (1865-1912). By Paul LelandHaworth. A History of the United States in our own times.
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