“A fascinating subject, cleverly related and almost colloquially discussed.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
THE HORSE: A Study in Natural History. By William H. Flower, C. B., Director in the British Natural History Museum. With 27 Illustrations.
“The author admits that there are 3,800 separate treatises on the horse already published, but he thinks that he can add something to the amount of useful information now before the public, and that something not heretofore written will be found in this book. The volume gives a large amount of information, both scientific and practical, on the noble animal of which it treats.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.
THE OAK: A Study in Botany. By H. Marshall Ward, F. R. S. With 53 Illustrations.
“An excellent volume for young persons with a taste for scientific studies, because it will lead them from the contemplation of superficial appearances and those generalities which are so misleading to the immature mind, to a consideration of the methods of systematic investigation.”—Boston Beacon.
“From the acorn to the timber which has figured so gloriously in English ships and houses, the tree is fully described, and all its living and preserved beauties and virtues, in nature and in construction, are recounted and pictured.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
ETHNOLOGY IN FOLKLORE. By George L. Gomme, F. S. A., President of the Folklore Society, etc.
“Many scholars have drawn upon various classes of folklore as illustrative of problems in mythology, but no attempt has been made until lately to formulate the principles and laws of folklore in general. This labor the learned President of the English Folklore Society has undertaken, and has accomplished his task, as might have been expected, in a scholarly and entertaining volume.”—New York Evening Post.
“The author puts forward no extravagant assumptions, and the method he points out for the comparative study of folklore seems to promise a considerable extension of knowledge as to prehistoric times.”—Independent.
THE LAWS AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER. By R. T. Glazebrook, F. R. S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.