STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE, by Charles Homer Haskins
Based upon years of research in European manuscript collections, this work discusses the science of the Arabs and its transmission to western Europe; the Greek phase of the mediaeval scientific renaissance; the Sicilian court of Frederick II on its scientific side as the meeting point of these Arabic and Greek currents; and, in a final section, the introduction of the abacus into the English exchequer, Syrian astronomy and western falconry, and a list of text-books in use at the close of the twelfth century. $6.00.
ORIGINS OF THE WAR OF 1870, by Robert H. Lord
Professor Lord has recently had the opportunity of using and transcribing in full the seven volumes of documents in the archives of the German Foreign Office which contain the German official record of the diplomatic crisis leading up to the outbreak of the War of 1870. Save for rare exceptions, these documents have never hitherto been printed but they are now published in extenso. As an introduction Professor Lord has retraced the history of the crisis in the light of the mass of new sources. $3.50.
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES POST OFFICE TO THE YEAR 1829, by Wesley E. Rich
Scarcely an activity of the Federal government so intimately affects the life of the ordinary citizen as the service of the Post Office Department, the early history of which is here recounted with a fullness that ensures an instructive and entertaining book. The quaint regulations the author cites from time to time, the numerous quotations he brings forth from old manuscript letters and reports, even his discussions of financial operations and of politics, are full of the homely detail that makes the past vividly alive again. $2.00.
EARLY ECONOMIC THOUGHT, edited by Arthur E. Monroe
“Professor Monroe is to be congratulated upon providing for the use of students of the history of economics a very useful compilation.… The volume will serve a useful purpose and is warmly to be welcomed, especially because the translations are well done.”—Political Science Quarterly.
“The selections are well chosen, always extensive enough to give an adequate idea of the author’s style and thought, and several of them are especially welcome because they have hitherto been inaccessible to most of us.”—American Economic Review. $3.50.
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