“M. Ribot has bestowed the most painstaking attention upon his theme, and numerous examples of the conditions considered greatly increase the value and interest of the volume.”—Philadelphia North American.
“To the general reader the work is made entertaining by many illustrations connected with such names as Linnæus, Newton, Sir Walter Scott, Horace Vernet, Gustave Doré, and many others.”—Harrisburg Telegraph.
“The whole subject is presented with a Frenchman’s vivacity of style.”—Providence Journal.
“It is not too much to say that in no single work have so many curious cases been brought together and interpreted in a scientific manner.”—Boston Evening Traveller.
[MYTH AND SCIENCE.] By Tito Vignoli. 12mo, cloth, price, $1.50.
“His book is ingenious; ... his theory of how science gradually differentiated from and conquered myth is extremely well wrought out, and is probably in essentials correct.”—Saturday Review.
“The book is a strong one, and far more interesting to the general reader than its title would indicate. The learning, the acuteness, the strong reasoning power, and the scientific spirit of the author, command admiration.”—New York Christian Advocate.
“An attempt made, with much ability and no small measure of success, to trace the origin and development of the myth. The author has pursued his inquiry with much patience and ingenuity, and has produced a very readable and luminous treatise.”—Philadelphia North American.
“It is a curious if not startling contribution both to psychology and to the early history of man’s development.”—New York World.
MAN BEFORE METALS. By N. Joly, Professor at the Science Faculty of Toulouse; Correspondent of the Institute. With 148 Illustrations, 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.